Full Professor of Informatics Engineering at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Tecnology of the University of Coimbra.
Associate Member of the Software and Systems Engineering Research Group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC)
Rector of the University of Coimbra from March 2011 to February 2019.
President of the Board of Instituto Pedro Nunes since April 2022.
Back in the eighties was the coordinator of the project that developed the first Portuguese Computer, the Ener 1000 - visit the exhibition From Ener to Space