Integrated Researcher at ISAMB (Institute of Environmental Health) – Faculty of Medicine – University of Lisbon

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Obesity

Vice-President of APFE – Portuguese Association of Exercise Physiologists

Member of the Scientific Council of the National Program for the Promotion of Physical Activity – General Directorate of Health

Coordinator of the Psychology and Sport Area at the European University, PhD in Health and Physical Condition, with a dissertation in the area of ​​Obesity, and Master in Exercise and Health, from the Faculty of Human Motricity of the Technical University of Lisbon. Exercise Physiologist at CUF Tejo hospital, researcher in projects funded by the FCT in the field of Adolescent and Adult Obesity, coordinator of multidisciplinary interventions in collaboration with Hospital de Santa Maria de Lisboa (for 10 years) and consultant for the Associação Protetora dos Diabéticos de Portugal (APDP). Author and co-author of more than 20 international scientific articles and several book chapters in the areas of exercise assessment and prescription, training and obesity. Member of the Scientific Council of the National Program for the Promotion of Physical Activity of the General Directorate of Health, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Obesity and Vice-President of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Exercise Physiologists. Pedagogical Coordinator of the Advanced Course in Nutrition in Sport and Exercise at the European University.