Assistant Professor in the Department of New Media Arts of Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Lisbon. BAF in Painting (1990); PhD in Image Theory (University of Lisbon, 2007); postdoctoral research in Image Theory (2018) with the study of the relations between art and science in the unknown stereoscopic photographs of the Portuguese naturalist Francisco Afonso Chaves (1857-1926). College Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Lisbon (2014-2019). Curator, among others, of the three exhibitions entitled The Paradoxical Image: Francisco Afonso Chaves (1857-1926), which take place at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of Natural History and Science, both in Lisbon, and at the Carlos Machado Museum in Ponta Delgada, Azores (2016-2017). Member of several scientific committees and speaker at different international conferences (Dublin, Canary Islands, Hangzhou, Lisbon, London, Montreal, Seattle) in the areas of Theory of Image; Photography; Art, Science and Technology; Visual Culture; Perception and Representation of Visual Space. He is co-author of the current Drawing programs for High Schools in Portugal.