President of the National Statistics Institute since January 2018. Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He was Vice-Chairman of the Engineering and Management Department and Vice-Chairman of COG-IST. At Instituto Superior Técnico, he was also the coordinator of the Bachelor's and Master’s degree courses in Industrial Engineering and Management. His research activity focuses on the areas of Labour Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Policy Evaluation.