He holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History - Defense and International Relations by ISCTE-IUL since 2021, with the thesis Spanish Refugees in Portugal: between policial repression and popular solidarity (1936-1945), with which he won Mário Soares -  EDP Foundation 2021 prize and an honorable mention within the scope of the Victor de Sá Prize for Contemporary History (2021).  He is a researcher at CIES - IUL in the project International collaborations: criminality and police cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic, c. 1870-1940, funded by the FCT (PTDC/HAR-HIS/3580/2021). He was a FCT research fellow between  2016 and 2020 (SFRH/BD/114813/2016) and a doctoral fellow in CIES-IUL. He is master in Modern and Contemporary History - International Relations by ISCTE-IUL since 2015, with the dissertation International Circulations and Liberalism. The Portuguese liberal exile, 1828-1832. In 2014 he was research fellow in the project "Social Control and Criminal Policy in Portuguese Liberalism, national reforms, transnational circulations, c.1820-1867 (EXPL/EPH-HIS/1600/2013). He is author of the articles O Exílio Liberal Português de 1828-1832, um fenómeno multidimensional: práticas sociais e culturais, Refugiados em Portugal: fronteira e vigilância no tempo da Guerra Civil de Espanha (1936-1939), Refugiados em Portugal. Repressão e controlo no contexto da Guerra Civil de Espanha (1936-1939), Refugiados espanhóis em Castro Laboreiro (1936-1939), Refugiados no Forte de Caxias no contexto da Guerra Civil de Espanha (1936-39) and of the working-paper Refugiados em Portugal nos inícios do Estado Novo: movimento, controlo e repressão policial no contexto da Guerra Civil de Espanha (1936-1939).