Post-doc. in Urban Morphology/Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP, 2015). PhD in Urbanism/Spatial Planning from the University Institute of Urban Planning of the University of Valladolid (IUU-UVa, 2008). Diploma of Advanced Studies in Architecture and the Modern City (DEA) from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of Valladolid (ETSA-UVa, 2003). Arch. Dipl. from the Porto Higher Artistic School (ESAP, 1999). He is head of the Planning Division of the Matosinhos City Council (DP-CMM). He is an invited assistant professor in the Integrated Master Programme in Architecture and Urbanism at Portucalense University (UPT) and coordinator of the Urbanism area at the UPT hub of the Research Centre in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD-UPT). He is a thesis supervisor in the Doctoral Program in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at Iscte-Lisbon University Institute (Iscte-IUL). He is the Scientific Council vice-president of the Lusophone Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM), and co-founder and co-coordinator of the International Symposium Formal Methods in Architecture (FMA Symposia). He is part of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Morfologia Urbana (RMU) and the new scientific journal Built Form: Journal of Morphological Research and Practice in Planning, Design and Architecture. He is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Sophia magazine of the research group in Architecture, Art and Image of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU/AAI-FAUP) and an editor of Scopio Magazine (CEAU/AAI-FAUP).
He was an external professor at the Master Programme on Geographic Information Systems Applied to Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Landscape at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), external examiner of master’s theses at Chalmers University of Technology (Architecture and Urban Design Programme), visiting fellow in TU Delft’s Architecture & City Group (Architectural Theory Fellowship Programme), research partner in the ENGAGE Network of Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage. He was secretary-director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Porto (CEAUP), assistant professor and director of the Integrated Master’s in Architecture and Urbanism at Escola Superior Gallaecia (ESG), coordinator of the research line in Territory, Environment and Urbanism at the Centre for Research at ESG (CIESG), professor and vice-director of the Architecture Course at the Porto Higher Artistic School (ESAP). He was deputy to the councillor for Urban Planning at the Porto City Council.