He holds a PhD in Geography and Regional Planning - specialising in Territorial Management, obtained in 2015 from NOVA University Lisbon - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences; a Master's Degree in Human Geography and Regional and Local Planning, in 1996 from the University of Lisbon - Faculty of Humanities; and a Degree in Geography - Educational Branch in 1989 from the University of Lisbon - Faculty of Humanities/Faculty of Psychology. In 2018, he obtained the Habilitation title in Civil Engineering - Branch of Specialisation in Territorial Engineering, from the Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon. His professional career began through his involvement in consultancy activities (Ateliê Risco, Bruno Soares Arquitetos, Espaço e Desenvolvimento, among others). With his master's degree, and then his doctorate, he began to combine this professional practice with university teaching and other academic responsibilities related to the same topics he was working on in the area. Since 2007 he has been a professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)-University of Lisbon, where until 2019 he coordinated the master's degree in Urbanism and Spatial Planning, when it was abolished and the joint master's degree programme in Spatial Planning and Urbanism was created with the Faculty of Architecture and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, where he also took on the role of coordinator for IST until 2022. He is responsible for curricular units in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of different courses, including Architecture and Spatial Planning and Urbanism. He is currently an integrated member of CiTUA - Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture, located at IST, where he is a member of its Board of Directors and driving the Spatial Justice Thematic Line, where he is part of the coordination team for the Território.justo.pt project. He was the principal investigator of the MetroGov3C Project - Metropolitan Governance in a Context of Conflict, Cooperation and Conflict until 2022. Within the framework of this project and others, such as PERIURBAN, SPOTIA, among others, he has produced multiple scientific publications - articles, book chapters and proceedings. He is currently coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Design Measures IN:Transitions project, involving IST, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology and PoliTO - Politecnico di Torino. As part of his involvement in research networks, his collaboration with RUITEM - Ibero-American University Network for Territory and Mobility, where he coordinates the Governance, Urban Planning and Spatial Planning working group, should be highlighted. He is currently the national coordinator of the Project. DUT 2023 - AGE15.