I am Associate Professor at FCT-UNL, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (School of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon – Portugal). I am a FCT affiliated member at Departamento de Informática (Dep. of Computer Science), and I am also an integrated research member at NOVA LINCS Research Lab – Nova Laboratory of Informatics and Computer Science, a Research Center hosted at FCT/UNL. I completed my PhD at FCT/UNL in April 2000. Prior to that, I received a MSc degree in Informatics Engineering in 1995 from FCUL - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon) and a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Engineering at Oporto University) and in 1985, from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade de Angola (Faculty of Engineering, University of Angola). I am currently a member of the ACM, ACM - SIGSAC, ACM/Eurosys, IEEE, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and ISOC PT ( Internet Society Portuguese Chapter). Teaching Activities I developed my academic career since 1990: 1990-1995 as teaching assistant at FCUL, 1995-2000 as teaching assistant at FCT-UNL, 2000-2005 as Assistant Professor. Before 2000 I worked as invited professor in the University of Rutgers (USA), as researcher (from 1993 to 1995) in the Chorus Systèmes Group and INRIA - France. After my permanent post obtained in 2005 at FCT/UNL as Assistant Professor, my teaching activities (as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor) covered the supervision of MSc and PhD students in their thesis and teaching tasks in different courses of the BSc, MSc, and PhD curricula, offered at DI-FCT-UNL. Those activities included the creation of new courses and responsibility of different courses on Computer Systems Security, Networks Security, Dependable Distributed Systems, Advanced Topics in Large Scale Distributed Systems, Security for Sensor-Based Networks, Privacy-Preserved Outsourced Cloud-Storage, Cloud-Computing Project Development, and Development of Cloud-Security services using Hardware-Assisted Trusted Execution Environments. Research My research interests are focused on dependability, security and privacy solutions for computer systems and networks, and large-scale distributed systems and applications. My research orientation is aligned with the strategic plan of NOVA LINCS (see: https://nova-lincs.di.fct.unl.pt/research), and it is integrated with the ongoing research activities and goals of the Computer Systems Research Group (see: https://nova-lincs.di.fct.unl.pt/research_areas/1#information). I am particularly interested in finding novel solutions for supporting the operation of trusted future large-scale distributed systems and how to support secure and privacy-enabled emerging distributed computing pipelines covering Users-Edge-Cloud services continuums. In this context, I am interested in finding new approaches including (i) new cryptographic constructions for usable/practical secure and privacy-preserved data-management solutions for outsourced and dependable computing models (ii) support for privacy-preserved data-flows and computations in the integration of user-applications and cyber-physical devices with edge-cloud continuums,(iii) programming support for trustworthy portable functions to run in different locations of outsourced computing environments, and (iv) design models for confidential computing with isolated hardware-assisted trusted execution environments (TEEs). Most of my current research interests are oriented to understand issues of privacy preservation and data confidentiality for distributed computing systems, as important complementary dimensions that must be addressed by design and together with dependability properties or arguments.