I am Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science (Departamento de Informática), NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT/UNL - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), where I hold a tenure position since April/2005.
I am also, since 2014, an integrated researcher at NOVA LINCS - NOVA Laboratory of Informatics and Computer Science, a leading research lab in Computer Science and Informatics, hosted at Departamento de Informática, FCT/UNL.
I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from NOVA University Lisbon in April/2000.
He completed his MSc degree in Informatics in 1995 at
FCUL - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences, University of
Lisbon) and he holds an BSc degree in Electrical Engineering obtained from FEUP - Faculdade de
Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Engineering at Oporto University) and Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade de Luanda/Angola.
During my academic career I served as Assistant Professor at FCT/UNL (2000-2018), invited lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Rutgers - US (2011), Teaching Assistant at FCT-UNL (1995-2000), Teaching Assistant at Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências - Universidade de Lisboa (1990-1994), Invited Teaching Assistant at FCT/UNL (1988-1989), and Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Engineering - Universoty of Luanda (Angola).
In prior research activities, he worked as integrated researcher at the CITI Research Center (Centro de Informática e Tecnologias da Informação) at FCT/UNL (2000-2014), as Research Student at FCUL (1990-1995), as Invited Researcher at INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique, France (1993-1994), and as Junior Researcher at IBM Research Center, La Hulpe - Belgium (1987-1988).
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I am a senior member of the ACM, ACM SIGSAC Group, ACM/Eurosys, IEEE, an activist member of EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), and associate member of ISOC (Internet Society) and ISOC.PT (ISOC Portugal Chapter), organization I served as member of the Executive Board (2016-2020).
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