Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL), where he coordinates the BA program in International Relations. Integrated researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA) and researcher at OBSERVARE – Foreign Relations Observatory at UAL.
He was a postdoctoral researcher at IPRI-NOVA (2016-2019), Visiting Assistant Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2018-2019) and at Universidade de Coimbra (2018-2020) and Visiting Researcher at Fudan University, Shanghai (2011-2012). His research interests centre on networked and multi-level international governance and foreign policy-making in Brazil, China and the European Union. His research has been published in various scientific journals such as Third World Quarterly, South European Society and Politics, Contexto Internacional and East Asia Journal.
PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Free University of Berlin, and Master in International Relations from the University of Coimbra.