Assistant Professor (tenured position) of Hydrodynamics at the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon);
Large exposure to Industry while serving the Portuguese Navy for 21 years;
Teaching and research supervision at Technical University of Lisbon and Newcastle University, including analytical, numerical and experimental applied research of the hydrodynamics of different floating structures;
Development of the Wave Energy Converter prototype “UGen”, whose patent registry was accepted in 2010.