He has a PhD in Communication Sciences from Iscte-IUL with a thesis entitled “Socrates and the ‘others’: contributions to understanding the media effect on institutional trust” with an individual grant from FCT (SFRH/BD/136605/2018). He has a degree in Sociology (2009) and a Master's degree in Sociology: exclusions and social policies (2013) from the University of Beira Interior. He was a research fellow on the project (The Matrix of) Populist and Negationist Attitudes towards Science PTDC/CPO-CPO/4361/2021 at ICS-UL. Between April 2024 and January 2025, he was also a research fellow on the project “Track-IN - Public employment services tracking effectiveness in supporting rural NEETs” at ICS-UL. He was a research fellow (2010-2015) on the projects Citizen's Agenda: journalism and civic participation in the Portuguese media (PTDC/CCI-JOR/098732/2008) and Public and private in mobile communications (QREN), both developed at LabCom, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Beira Interior. Between June 2016 and June 2017 he was a researcher at OberCom. In 2016-2017 he was a Science and Technology Management fellow at OberCom - Palácio Foz. That same year (November) he joined the project Medida Ligar-Eficiência Energética para todos (ADENE), developed at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He was born in the city of Covilhã on May 14, 1982.