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Born in 1981. Professor of Law and Chair of Constitutional Law at the Porto Faculty of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Researcher at the CEID. Executive Director of the Master’s programmes. Scientific Director of the Master in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Human Rights. Co-editor of the Hart Publishing Series on Constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Member of the Steering Committee of the UCP Digital Ethics Laboratory (LED). National Coordinator of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC), established by the Secretariat of the European Social Charter (Strasbourg). Coordinator of the Observatory for the Protection of Social Rights in the European Context. Co-coordinates the pioneer Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Course on Human Rights (Law, Psychology, and Socioeconomics).Member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON). Member of the International Association of Electoral Law.Organized several international conferences and authored numerous national and international publications, including in top-tier law journals. Guest speaker at conferences, colloquia and lectures at, among other places, University of Texas at Austin – School of Law (USA), University of Maryland (USA), Humboldt-Berlin University (Germany), Europäisches Rechtsakademie – ERA (Germany), Karl Franzens Universität Graz (Austria), Universität Innsbruck (Austria), University of Antwerp (Belgium), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University College Dublin (Ireland), Centre for European Constitutional Law (Greece), Università degli Studi Milano (Italy), Università di Bologna (Italy), Università degli Studi di Verona (Italy), Università di Roma LUMSA (Italy), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy) Università di Reggio Calabria (Italy), Universitas Airlangga (Indonesia), IDP (Brazil), USP (Brazil), FGV-RJ (Brazil), Pontifícia Universidade Católica-Rio Grande Sul (Brazil), PUC-PR (Brazil), Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil), Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (São Paulo, Brazil), Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Brazil), Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia), University of Galatasaray (Turkey), University of Altinbas (Turkey), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Universidade Católica de Angola (Angola), and SGT University (India).Former Clerk at the European Court of Justice (2005). Former Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, 2012).

Listed skills include Constitutional Law, Social Rights, European Social Charter, Legal Advice, and 15 others.