Associate Professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). He is currently teaching ‘European Integration’ at FCH and ‘The Political Economy European Integration’ at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. He is also an integrated member of CECC-FCH/UCP. He holds an MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University, an MRes in Economics from U. Nova, Lisbon, and a PhD and Aggregation in European Political Economy from UCP.