Professional Associations
Association Period
RISCOS - Portuguese Association for Risks, Prevention and Security Since 2018
CEIPC - Center for Studies and Research in Civil Protection Since 2012
CERU - European Center on Urban Risks Since 1999
International Sociological Association and Disaster Research Committee 1985 - 2015
Portuguese Sociology Association Since 1984
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
Ministry of Internal Affairs (State Secretariat for Civil Protection) Portugal (Lisboa) Ministerial Working Group Coordinator - Ministry of Internal Affairs (Resolution of the Council of Ministers no. 24/2021) and order no. 4156/2021 of the Minister of Internal Affairs (Working Group “REFORMULATION OF THE GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATION MODEL OF THE NATIONAL FIRE SCHOOL AND THE OFFER OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF FIRE FIGHTING AND CIVIL PROTECTION, IN ARTICULATION WITH THE OFFER OF HIGHER EDUCATION) 2021 - 2022
Lisbon City Council (Municipal Police) Portugal (Lisboa) Main Technical Advisor (Sociologist) (Advisor at the Municipal Police Command Support Office, working in the field of Quality and Community Policing) 2019 - 2020
Lisbon City Council (Lisbon Urban Management and Intelligence Center) Portugal (Lisboa) Main Technical Advisor (Sociologist) (Collaborator in the development of the technological Platform that will support the Integrated Operations Center, in the field of requirements and parameters for Emergency Operational Management.) 2017 - 2019
ISEC Lisboa - Higher Institute of Education and Sciences Portugal (Lisboa) Assistant Professor (Professor of the Civil Protection Engineering Degree and the Master of Risks and Civil Protection. Coordinator of the Risk and Civil Protection Master's Degree) Since 2017
Leiria Polytechnic Institute Portugal (Leiria) Assistant Professor (Professor at the Civil Protection Degree) 2016 - 2025
Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies Portugal (Cascais) Assistant Professor (Master's Professor of Tourism - Security and Risk Management in Events) 2015 - 2020
Lisbon City Council (Municipal Service for Civil Protection) Portugal (Lisboa) Department Director (Responsible for the MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL AND OPERATIVE EXECUTION of the municipal security policy in civil protection.) 2014 - 2017
Cascais City Council (Municipal Service for Civil Protection) Portugal (Cascais) Department Director and Municipal Operational Commander (Responsible for the MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL AND OPERATIVE EXECUTION of the municipal security policy in civil protection. Responsible for defining and preparing a STRATEGIC PROPOSAL FOR RESTRUCTURING THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF SMPC DE CASCAIS Responsible for the organization, constitution and operating regulations of the MUNICIPAL CIVIL PROTECTION COMMISSION Responsible and coordinator of the preparation of the MUNICIPAL CIVIL PROTECTION EMERGENCY PLAN (2013) Member of the MUNICIPAL SAFETY COUNCIL Director of Civil Protection Operations Plans for events held since May 2008 (around 50), with reference, among others, to: ESTORIL CONFERENCES (2009, 2011, 2013); ESTORIL AIRSHOW, 2011 and 2012; 21st EUROPEAN RALLY 2012 “HARLEY OWNERS GROUP”; AMERICA’S CUP WORLD SERIES, Cascais 2011. Responsible for organizing the 1st JOURNEY ON CIVIL PROTECTION AND PLANNING OF THE TERRITORY OF CASCAIS. November 2008; 2nd CIVIL PROTECTION JOURNEY, February 2011; and 3rd CIVIL PROTECTION JOURNEY, Ma) 2008 - 2014
Lisbon City Council (Presidency) Portugal (Lisboa) Advisor to the President of CML - Dr. Antonio Costa (SUPPORT AND ADVICE within the scope of municipal security structures – Department of Civil Protection, Municipal Police and Sapadores Fire Brigade Regiment; PREPARATION OF INFORMATION, OPINIONS AND REPORTS in relation to various subjects in the field of municipal security; Preparation of a PROPOSAL FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL PROTECTION SYSTEM and organic changes to the Municipal Civil Protection Secretariat; Various representations on behalf of the President of the CML) 2007 - 2008
Lisbon City Council (Firefighters Regiment) Portugal (Lisboa) Main Technical Advisor (Sociologist) (ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURING OF THE CRISIS ROOM at the RSB Command and Transmission Center TECHNICAL SUPPORT to the Fire Regiment Commander) 2007
Lisbon City Council (Vice Presidency Drª Marina Ferreira) Portugal (Lisboa) Advisor to the Vice-President Dr. Marina Ferreira (SUPPORT AND ADVICE within the scope of municipal security structures – Department of Civil Protection, Municipal Police and Sapadores Fire Brigade Regiment; PREPARATION OF INFORMATION, OPINIONS AND REPORTS in relation to various subjects in the field of municipal security.) 2007
Ministry of Internal Affairs (National Fire and Civil Protection Service (currently ANEPC)) Portugal (Lisboa) Deputy director (Responsible for the organizational units of Prevention and Protection Services Department, Technical Services Department and Volunteer Support Office) 2006 - 2007
Ministry of Internal Affairs (National Fire and Civil Protection Service (currently ANEPC)) Portugal (Lisboa) Director (Management and execution of security policies in civil protection at national level. Member of the Special Commission for the Study of Aerial Means of Fighting Forest Fires. Member of APIF - Association for Forest Fire Prevention Member of ANIF - National Forest Fire Authority) 2004 - 2006
Ministry of Internal Affairs (National Fire and Civil Protection Service (currently ANEPC)) Portugal (Lisboa) Deputy director (Responsible for the organizational units of the Prevention and Protection Services Department and the Volunteer Support Office) 2003 - 2004
Lisbon City Council (Municipal Service for Civil Protection) Portugal (Lisboa) Head of Planning and Operations Division (Responsible for the Emergency Management area with relevance to: • Coordination of all actions relating to the intervention of SMPC technicians in situations of accidents and incidents occurring in the city of Lisbon; • Organization of the service's internal structure for emergency intervention; • Organization of the SMPC emergency telecommunications system; Responsible for the Emergency Planning area with emphasis on: • Design and technical coordination of the following emergency plans: • Municipal Emergency Plan (1997); • Expo 98 Emergency Plan – Civil Protection Section (1998); • Municipal Emergency Plan for the Year 2000 Bug (2000); • Lisbon Seismic Risk Emergency Plan (2002); • Special Emergency Plan for the Monsanto Forest Park (2003); • Emergency Plan - Gymnaestrada 2003 (2003). • Coordination of actions related to emergency planning: • Definition of the structure and organization of the SMPC Emergency Operations Center (COE); • Design of COEs for the CML and Parish Council serv) 1996 - 2003
Lisbon City Council (Municipal Service for Civil Protection) Portugal (Lisboa) Planning Center Coordinator, Higher Technician (Sociologist) (• Author of the study Estimating the Present Population by Zones and Periods of Time in the city of Lisbon for 1993; • Coordinator of work related to the preparation of the Municipal Emergency Plan; • Coordinator of work related to the analysis and planning of seismic risk in the city of Lisbon; • Responsible for designing and organizing the survey of means and resources in the Lisbon area as emergency logistical support; • Participation in the organization of the Municipal Civil Protection Emergency Operations Center (CMOEPC); • Participation in the preparation of the “Lisboa Lince 95” Operations Order, within the scope of the “Lince 95” Exercise promoted by the SNPC; • Participation in the development and measurement of the project model relating to seismic risk studies in the city of Lisbon, with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and ISA-France; • Participation with a researcher associated with the Institute of Earth and Space Sciences in the Ecariscopo project of ) 1993 - 1996
Lisbon City Council (Alfama Technical Office) Portugal (Lisboa) Coordinator of the Sociological Research Area and Social Service Sector ( Responsible for the sociological survey carried out in the parishes within the Office's intervention area;  Responsible for organizing and managing provisional and definitive resettlement processes;  Responsible for the conception, organization and launch of various planning works for the social and collective re-equipment of the intervention area, with the preparation of the respective preliminary programs;  Participation in the preparation of the Alfama and Mouraria Special Safeguard Plans and the Alfama Detailed Safeguard Plan;  Responsible for supervising and monitoring curricular internships and professional development in the area of ​​Social Sciences.) 1986 - 1993
Planus 3 - Associate Architect Portugal (Amadora) Sociological Studies Advisor (Carrying out social characterization studies of clandestine neighborhoods undergoing rehabilitation) 1983 - 1989