PhD in Information Technologies and Systems, with a master's degree in Information Systems Management, from the University of Minho (UMinho).

Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems Department of the School of Engineering of this university, where he has been teaching topics related to Business Intelligence (BI), databases, and Information Systems Integration, in several undergraduate and postgraduate courses in ICT and engineering.

As a researcher, he is a member of the ALGORITMI Research Center, working in the areas of Business Intelligence, Business Process Management (BPM), Data Analytics, Information Visualization, and Big Data, with specific interests in organizational decision support solutions, business process improvement, and Big Data solutions. He integrates the Program Commissions of several scientific, national, and international conferences. He has advised several master's students.