I am currently Associate Professor of Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar (IPLeiria), effective member of MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, a collaborating member of the Statistics Department (University of Salamanca, Spain) and I carry out my research in multivariate statistics applied to food science and consumption and marine ecology. I did my PhD in Applied Multivariate Statistics at the Statistics Department of the University of Salamanca (Spain), where I developed research on three-way models and their applicability to analyze data from ecological studies with variations in time and space. Recently I coordinated the projects "PÃO MAR" and "RENDA DOCE DE PENICHE", having in the past been also responsible for the project "PÃO D'ALGAS".