Has completed his degree in ​​Music Education, in 2007, at ESELx (Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa), starting his professional career as a teacher in public and private schools. Simultaneously to his teaching career, has integrated, from 2008 to 2014, the Calouste Gulbenkian professional choir; and has done research in musicology, from 2010 to 2020, in collaboration with CESEM (Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 

With a Master degree in School Administration (2019) and a postgraduate diploma in Data Analysis in the Social Sciences (2022) from Iscte, he is attending, since 2020, the Policies of School Administration and Management PhD programme, at the same institution, with a research scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.