1.          Academic Background:

He entered the Physics degree of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), Portugal, in the 1994/95 school year, and 2 years later changed to the Optoelectronics and Lasers degree of the same faculty.

He finished is degree in Optoelectronics and Lasers, in September 1998, with a final average of 16 (out of 20). In the final year project he worked experimentally in the field of optical fibre amplifiers.

He started is M.Sc. in Optoelectronics and Lasers, in the FCUP, in the 1998/99 school year, and finished the first year (lectures) with a final average of 17 (out of 20).

He finished is M.Sc. in June of 2001, with a final grade of Very Good. Professors Oleg Okhotnikov and Manuel Joaquim Marques supervised his experimental work, entitled “Frequency-Shifted-Feedback Fibre Lasers”.

He started is Ph.D. program, in the field of optical fibre communications, in July 2001, with the supervision of Professor Manuel Joaquim Marques. That Ph.D. program was undertaken in the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit of INESC-PORTO, and in the Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) of the Technical University of Tampere, in Finland, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Oleg Okhotnikov. His Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers" was unanimously approved by the jury, on the 20th of December 2005.

2.          Awards

He received the “Eng. António de Almeida” award, given by the Eng. António de Almeida Foundation, to the best student of his course, in the final year of the degree.

3.          Professional activities:

During the 1999/2000 school year, and during the first semester of the 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 school years, he was employed as monitor in the Physics Department of FCUP, where he taught the following courses: Physics Laboratory for Chemistry I, Physics Laboratory for Physics III, Physics Laboratory for Astronomy III, Physics Laboratory for Physics and Chemistry Teaching I, Optoelectronics Laboratory II and Optics II.

From March 2004 to March 2006 he was an Invited Teaching Assistant, in the Physics Department of the University of Madeira, where he taught the following courses: General Physics (Exercise and Laboratory classes) for the Biology and Biochemistry degrees, General Physics I (Laboratory classes) for the Civil Engineering and Chemistry degrees and Physics and Circuits Laboratories (Laboratory classes) for the Telecommunications and Networks Engineering and Computer Engineering degrees.

From March 2006 to March 2007 he was an Invited Assistant Professor, in the Physics Department of the University of Madeira, where he taught the following courses: Themodynamics, for the Civil Engineering degrees and Optics for the Astronomy and Chemistry degrees.

Since March 2007 he is an Assistant Professor, in the Mathematics and Engineering Department of the University of Madeira, where he teaches the following courses: Digital Systems, and Measurements and Instrumentation.

4.          Scientific Activities

He has been working, since January of 1999, in the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit of INESC-PORTO, and has been involved in several projects, e.g. the HIPOWER project (P014-P31B-09/96) and the DWIDE.COM project.

His field of expertise are optical fibre sources, but he has basic knowledge in several other areas, e.g. optical fibre sensors, instrumentation, and computer simulation.

His present day interests are connected with the development of optical fibre lasers, capable of producing short and ultra-short pulses, and optical fibre amplifiers, in the 1mm wavelength range, for use in Medical and Biological systems.

5.          Pedagogic activities

He prepared and presented two session of the recycling course “The Oscilloscope in the Classroom”, for about 80 teachers of several Secondary Schools of Madeira. These sessions, 8 hours each, took place in the Physics Department of the University of Madeira from January 2005 to February 2007.

He prepared and presented two demonstration sessions with Physics experiments to 3^rd and secondary level teachers, in the 3^rd Regional Physics, Mathematics and Technologies Teachers Meeting, in Porto Santo, from the 21^st to the 23^rd of April 2005.

He prepared and presented, together with Dr. Pedro Almeida, two demonstration sessions with simple Physics experiments, entitled “The Brave New World of Physics”, for student of several Secondary schools of Madeira. These sessions took part in the Regional Public Library in Funchal, on the 19^th of March and the 3^rd of June 2005.