Academic Career

• Director of the Law Research and Development Unit of the Portuguese Catholic University since 2013
• Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University since 2004
• Director of the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University between 2002 and 2005
• PhD in law in the field of Legal-Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University in 1999
• Member of the European Public Law Group (based in Athens) since 1998
• M.A. in Law in the field of Legal-Political sciences from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University in 1991
• Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University in 1987

Professional Career

• Partner at Sérvulo since 1999
• President of the working group responsible for preparing the Public Procurement Code by order of the Minister of Finance and Public Procurement and Public Works, no. 179/2006 from 27th January 2006
• Member of the Portuguese Bar Association committee responsible for preparing a preliminary draft of a new law on civil liability of the State between 2000 and 2001
• Assistant to the Ministers of the Republic for the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira between 1991 and 1999
• Admitted to the Bar Association in 1990