2012 - Today, DI/FC/UL Library responsible. Supervision of the migration of all digital DI/FC/UL collections to the UL digital repository in the “Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal” RCAAP.

2004 - Today, Assistant Professor of DI/FC/UL.

2010 - 2015, Researcher of the national project PTDC/MAR/118767/2010 “Role Of Acoustic Signals In Mate Choice And Male-Male Assessment In A Strongly-Vocal Fish, Halobatrachus Didactylus”.

2013 - 2014, FC/UL consultant team leader of the integration of national oncological databases and data warehouses. Supported by the National Program for Oncological Diseases.

2011 - 2013, FC/UL team leader of the World Search QREN/COMPETE project – graphically advanced information search.

2010 - 2014, Responsible for all Information Systems disciplines from a FC/UL/DI graduation course (LEI-PL).

2005 - 2011, Researcher of the Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory.

1989 - 2005, Researcher of the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC).

2002 - 2004, Member of the executive commission of the L2F Laboratory / INESC-ID.

1999 - 2004, Assistant Professor of the “Instituto Superior Técnico” / University of Lisbon (IST/UTL).

1999 - 2002, Portuguese delegate of the Information Systems Technology NATO Panel TG-001

1999 - 2001, Consultant auditing Philips Speech Technology for the Automatic directory assistant service - Portuguese Telecom project.

2000, International Fellow of SRI International, Menlo Park (CA).

1999, PhD IST/UL degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

1984 - 1999, Research Assistant of IST/UL.

1991 - 1992, Researcher (PhD Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship) of the Speech Technology Center, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

1989, MSc IST/UL degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

1985 -1989, Researcher of the “Centro de Análise e Processamento de Sinais” (CAPS/IST).

1984, Telecommunications Engineer of EDP - Portuguese electrical power company.

1984, IST/UL Graduation in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications and Computer Science.

1979-1980, IBM System/370 and Cobol courses – supported by Petrogal.

Análise e design de sistemas de informação;

Usabilidade e experiência de utilização;

Processamento de sinais;

Aprendizagem de línguas assistida por computador;

Processamento de fala multilingue;

Análise de prosódia;

Recuperação de informações multimédia;

E-saúde;

Mobilidade sustentável;

Information Systems Analysis and Design;

Usability and User Experience;

Signal processing;

Computer Assisted Language Learning;

Multilingual speech processing;

Prosody analysis;

Multimedia information retrieval;

E-Health;

Sustainable Mobility;