I have a Ph.D. in Physics, and I am an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra, where I am the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering. My scientific background is in electronic and optical instrumentation. I started my scientific career in the field of Nuclear Electronics and worked in Real-Time Data Acquisition and Timing Systems for space (my graduate thesis was done under contract with the ESA, the European Space Agency) and nuclear applications (electronics for nuclear radiation detectors; timing and control systems for nuclear fusion experiments). I shifted my research to Biomedical Instrumentation, focusing mainly on ocular fluorescence. I have done work in lens and retinal fluorescence and in corneal confocal microscopy. Currently, I work mainly on ocular functional imaging (optical coherence elastography, multiphoton imaging of the cornea). I am a senior researcher and a member of the Executive Board of CIBIT, the Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research. My current scientific interests are: optical imaging; multiphoton imaging; optical coherence tomography instrumentation; optical coherence elastography