Full Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, iscte. Former Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Architecture at University of Lisbon (FAUL). Researcher at African Studies Center at University of Porto.  ERC Advanced Grantee “Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule” (ArchLabour) (2024-2028). Former Chair of the Cost Action CA18137 “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” (2019-2023), supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Former IIAS Fellow (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), from the research group “Re-Theorizing Housing as Architecture Research” (2019-2020).  Pos-Doc in Architecture from the University of Porto (FAUP, under the supervision of A. Alves Costa). PhD (2004) in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, Brazil (under the supervision of J. Toscano). Master (1998, under supervision of M.D. Mesquita) and BA (1991) in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at Technic University of Lisbon. Principal Investigator of seven research projects focused on architecture and urban planning issues in the former Portuguese colonial countries and middle-class housing, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology, including the ongoing project  “LabourMap-Macau – The impact of workers on public works in Macau during the Portuguese administration (1849-1999)”. Author of “A Construção do Brasil – Relações com a Cultura Arquitectónica Portuguesa” (2005), “Nos Trópicos sem Le Corbusier – Arquitectura Luso-Africana no Estado Novo” (2012), awarded with the art and architecture critic and essayist prize by the Portuguese Section of AICA/ Fundação Carmona e Costa (2013), and “African Colonial Architectures - At the end of the ‘Portuguese Empire’” (2017). Invited researcher at Ghent University (2015-2016) and Fellow Researcher at University of São Paulo (2018, funded by FAPESP - São Paulo). Curator in several institutional exhibitions as UIA RIO2021 (Rio de Janeiro 2021), Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino and Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, 2019 and 2013, respectively). Tutored 12 completed PhD theses and three Post-Doc research.  Supervised 84 master's students since 2007.  Professor of post-graduate programs since 2011 (ISCTE, FAUP, FAUL and Escola da Cidade – Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, São Paulo).