Physiologist with more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research. He obtained his PhD in 1992 (Magna cum Laude) from the University of Lisbon. He currently serves as Chair of Physiology and Chair of Pathophysiology at Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon), where he has led the School of Health Sciences since its establishment in 2001 and the CBIOS research center since 2011.
He has introduced innovative teaching and learning strategies across higher education, including simulation, experimental approaches, and active learning.
His research has focused primarily on cardiovascular physiology, with particular interest in microcirculation, adaptive hemodynamic mechanisms, and skin physiology. He has also been involved in several initiatives with national and international societal impact. He has founded and led ALIES a non-profit editing Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research | Investigação Biomédica e Biofarmacêutica, an open-access, internationally indexed bilingual journal, acting as the Editor-in-chief since 2011.
He is a founding member of the Portuguese Society of Cosmetic Sciences (SPCC, 2008) and the Portuguese Society of Physiology (SPF, 2017), which he currently chairs. Internationally, he was a member of the EU Cosmetology Science Commission (1992–1997) and helped establish the EEMCO Group (European Expert Group for the Efficacy Measurement of Cosmetics and Other Topical Products), which he chaired from 2017 to 2021. He currently leads the FEPS Commission of Experts for the European Physiology Register and Accreditation initiative.
His academic record includes more than 500 scientific publications and 400 scientific communications, mostly international. He has supervised more than 50 master's dissertations and 12 doctoral theses and has served as a keynote speaker and expert on competitive research-funding panels. He has received several awards and distinctions, including recent appointment as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society (Cardiovascular Section).