PhD in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of UCP, in Braga, with a thesis on ‘Desire as History: the meaning of human culture in René Girard’. He has a Master's degree in Philosophy of Knowledge and Epistemology and a Licence in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the UCP in Braga.

He currently teaches at the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Braga Regional Centre of the Portuguese Catholic University.
He has published eleven articles in specialised journals, is the author of two book introductions and has two published books: ‘On Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Interpretation’ and "Desire as History. The Meaning of Human Culture in René Girard". He has been supervising Master's and PhD theses in the field of Political Philosophy since 2007.

He has been teaching ‘History of Modern Philosophy’ and ‘Social and Political Philosophy’ since 1998. Since 2003, ‘Aesthetics and Cognition’ in the Master's Degree in Cognitive Sciences and ‘Theories of Justice (J. Rawls and his critics)’ and ‘Current Political Models’ in the Specialisation in Ethics and Political Philosophy of the 2nd cycle course in Philosophy. Since 2007-2008 he has taught ‘Theory of Justice’ and ‘Analysing Political Philosophy Texts’ on the 3rd cycle (PhD) course in Philosophy and ‘History of Contemporary Philosophy’ on the degrees in F.D.E. and Religious Sciences and ‘Philosophical Anthropology’. Since 2014 he has been teaching ‘Hermeneutics’.