SUMMARY Assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Intergrated reserachers at CopeLabs, ULHT. Invited Professor at ISCTE ¿ Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Member of the faculty team that created the first Data Science undergraduate university program (BSc in Data Science) in Portugal. Teaching - Taught two undergraduate courses (¿Data in Science, Society and Management¿ and ¿Algorithms and Data Structures¿) and one graduate level course (Programming fundamentals) in ¿Pós Graduação em ciência de dados aplicada¿, both at ISCTE-IUL. ¿ Research interests: Complexity Sciences, specializing on complex networks. Associate Member of ISTAR ¿ Information Sciences and Technologies and Architecture Research Center at ISCTE-IUL, researching theoretical and applied science to social, physical and biological systems, including network and graph science, machine learning and agent-based modeling. Consulting director in Information Technology and Communications at IBM. Long national and international career with the IBM corporation, with director level positions, leading consulting teams developing strategic plans and implementing ITC solutions in diverse fields, including IT architecture, security, networking, ERPs, CRM, BI and many custom solutions, both nationally in Portugal and Australia, as well as internationally in regional and world-wide units.