Degree (2002), PhD (2009) and Agregação (2021) in law from NOVA School of Law. Vice-dean of NOVA School of Law (2018-2021), president of Jurisnova (2015-2022), professor at the High Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon (2010-2015) and at the Law Department of the Autonomous University of Lisbon (2009-2012), and legal advisor at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2011) and at the Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2003-2004).
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University (2010-), and visiting professor at the High Institute for Legal and Political Sciences (Cape Vert) (2022), Interdisciplinary Centre of Herzlyia (Israel) (2019), the School of Advanced Studies of Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy) (2015), the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (São Paulo, Brazil) (2019), and IDP (Brasília, Brazil) (2019), and at the Universities of Burapha (Thailand) (2017), Catholic of Mozambique (Beira and Nampula) (2013-), Faculty of Economics and Management (Kosovo) (2017 and 2019), Jimma (Ethiopia) (2022), Montenegro (Podgorica) (2019), Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) (2019), Nagasaqui (Japan), Northumbria (Newcastle, United Kingdom) (2016), Petra (Amman, Jordan), São Tomé and Principe (2022), St. Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon) (2021), St. Kliment Ohridski (Sofia, Bulgaria) (2019) Tirana (Albania) (2019), and Unizambeze (2021).
Delivered conferences in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, China, Ethiopia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Mozambique, Philippines, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste and Portugal.
Member of CEDIS – Centre for R&D on Law and Society, of the Portuguese Society of International Law and of the Portuguese Association of European Law.
Coordinates the Observatories of Data Protection and the Portuguese Legislation, as well as the Compliance Lab and SPARC.