He holds a PhD in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). He is a Full Professor at the University of Coimbra and a member of the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER). He has studied the phenomenon of economic growth in theoretical and empirical terms and has published more than 70 papers in several international journals, including Research Policy, the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Oxford Economic Papers, and Ecological Economics. He has held a number of university management positions, having been a member of the Senate and Scientific Councils, Course Director and Coordinator, Department and Core Chair and Pro-Rector.
He is the coordinator and a member of the judging panel for research and innovation projects funded by public and private foundations. He was one of the economists invited by the President of Portugal to the Post-Troika Portuguese Economy meeting on in 2013 and one of the economists invited by the Prime Minister to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and the subsequent crisis.

Last updated: May 2022