Historian. PhD and Aggregate in Contemporary History. Full Professor at the History Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities NOVA University of Lisbon. Coordinator of the Ph.D. program in History. Coordinator of the post-graduation course Management and Policy in Science and Technology. Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. Coordinator of the Research Group Economy, Society and Innovation. Coordinator of Centro República (2011-). State Secretary for Science, Technology and Higher Education (2015-2018). President of the Institute of Contemporary History (2011-2015). Design and coordination of the ROSSIO infrastructure (2011-2015) Portuguese Roadmap of Research Infra-structures 2014-2020. National Coordinator in the DARIAH-ERIC (2015). National Commissioner for Commemorations do Centenário da República (2008-2011). Panel member in ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 - "The Study of the Human Past: Archaeology and history". Editorial Board Member of the peer-reviewed journal Ler História; Section Editor of the International Encyclopedia of the First World War 1914-1918 Member of External Assessment Team (EAT) appointed by Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education - A3ES for assessment/accreditation of study cycles of higher education in History (2020-…). Commander of the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique by the President of the Portuguese Republic (2011). Research areas include the history of Portugal in the 20th century, the participation of Portugal in the European economic cooperation movements, the history of economy, industry, engineering and contemporary innovation, history of the organization of science in Portugal. Coord. ongoing projects: Memory for All (https://memoriaparatodos.pt); DESIR WP6 - DARIAH; History and Museum of Police; History of insurance and insurers; Biographies of the presidents of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Living Rivers, Erasmus+; Treasuring – Memories from Gorongoza, Mozambique. Last publications: “Revising the institutionalization of science policies: Historical contexts and competing models» com Tiago Brandão e Inês Queiroz, in Portuguese Journal of Social Science, vol.17, No.1, pp.31-61, 2018. Em Nome da Ciência. Ciência Viva – Agência Nacional para a Cultural Científica e Tecnológica, 20 Anos de História (1996-2016), com Ana Carina Azevedo e Ângela Salgueiro, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2017 A Grande Guerra no Parlamento, com Ana Paula Pires, Outubro de 2018; “Memory from the Avenues. A collaborative strategy towards local history and heritage”, com Filipe Silva, Inês Castaño, Inês Queiroz, Luisa Seixas MemoriaMedia Review 3. Art.8. 2018; Portugal in the post-war period. Between conservatism and modernity, in Hidden in Plain Sight. Politics and Design in State Subsidized Residential Architecture, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos (Ed.), 2019. Desafios e responsabilidades das humanidades digitais: preservar a memória, valorizar o património, promover e disseminar o conhecimento. O programa Memória para Todos, Estudos Históricos n. 69, 2020