He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Aveiro and is a researcher at CINTESIS at the same university. His research preferences are divided into two major areas: research methodology, impact assessment, and statistics (validations, algorithms, and machine learning) and central and peripheral measures of the nervous system, with studies in health settings (stroke, face processing, executive control, and emotional processing), education (executive functions and learning), forensics (eyewitness testimony, and chronotype), and labor (psychosocial factors).