Researcher at CICP, Universidade do Minho, 2023. 

Political science researcher at CIES – Centre for Sociology Research Studies, ISCTE – Higher Institute of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Lisbon, with the project «Local government in Portugal: political and social responsibility over the sustainable development of unequal territories»), 2018-2023. Guest Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL, 2018-2023. Post-graduate in European Studies, Master and PhD in Modern and Contemporary History and two Post-Doctoral research projects on Political Science, focusing on Local Government. Former researcher at CIUHCT, Centro Interuniversitário de História da Ciência e Tecnologia, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Principal Investigator at project «The popularization of science and technology in Portugal (XIXth-XXth Centuries)». Specialised in History of Medicine, Science and Public Health, as well as political transitions, local government, political and economic elites, memories and identities, rural and urban history, biographies. Researcher at several projects, such as «Resistance: Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries», dir. Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Universidade de Évora, e «Poder central, poderes locales y modernización en España (1958-1979): un estudio desde la historia comparada» (HAR 2015-63662-P), dir. Julio Ponce, Universidade de Sevilha. Author of eleven books, articles in scientific journals with peer review, such as Public Understanding of Science, Rural History, História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Notes & Records of The Royal Society, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, European Societies, AGER, Continuity and Change, book chapters and over five thousand dictionary entries available online. Has built eight databases and regularly presents papers in conferences and seminars.