Hospital Assistant of Clinical Pathology at Hospital da Senhora da Oliveira - Guimarães. PhD in Human Biology from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). Degree in Nutrition Sciences from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto and Master in Medicine from FMUP.

Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Biotechnology of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he develops teaching activities. Responsible for coordinating the “Human Anatomy” and “Human Physiology” Course Units in the Degree in Nutrition Sciences and Bioengineering.

He was a researcher in the field of neurosciences. It has an h-index of 14 in Scopus and a total of 444 citations in indexed scientific articles. Reviewer of scientific papers submitted for publication in indexed international journals (Toxicology Letters, Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry). Author of 15 scientific papers published in full in indexed international journals and 4 book chapters.