Assistant Researcher in the Mineral Resources and Geophysics Unit of the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG, Geological Survey of Portugal), where he has worked since 1990. Since 2017, he has coordinated the Aljustrel Core Repository (Litoteca de Aljustrel) and has been responsible for the drill-core collections from the Iberian Pyrite Belt and the Ossa-Morena Zone. Ph.D. in Geology, specializing in Economic Geology and Metallogeny, from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has coordinated and participated in national and international research projects in collaboration with geological surveys, universities, and mining companies. His expertise includes geological and mining mapping, mineral exploration and assessment of strategic and critical mineral resources, stratigraphy, structural geology, economic geology, and geoheritage. He has carried out research cooperation projects in Portugal, Spain, Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, and Morocco. He served as an Invited Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja and member of the Portuguese Committee IGCP-UNESCO. He currently co-supervises 3 PhD students and co-supervised 10 MSc Thesis. He represents LNEG in the Geoheritage expert groups of EuroGeoSurveys and the Association of Ibero-American Geological and Mining Surveys and serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Association of Geologists. He is the author of dozens of scientific papers published in national and inte