He has been an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University since 2010 and a researcher and member of the Board of LIACC - Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Sciences. His research interests include Digital Signal Processing, Systems, Systems of Systems, Complexity and Social and Economic Networks. He has also been the scientific director and a member of the board of IDIT - Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Inovação Tecnológica, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto since 1988, and a founding member of its Department of Computer Engineering, and was a founding member of the CCP - Porto CIM Centre, in 1992. He holds a D.Phil. from the University of Sussex (1981), the title of Aggregate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of FEUP (1998) and was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He has published 11 articles in specialised journals and 51 papers in event proceedings, and has one published book. In his professional activities he has interacted with 38 collaborators in co-authoring scientific papers.