He was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1963 and graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharm. D) in 1989 (Industrial Pharmacy - option B), graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharm. D) in 1992 (Community and Hospital Pharmacy - option A) and obtained its Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Technology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP) in 1999. He is an Associate Professor with habilitation of the Department of Drug Sciences, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, of the FFUP. He teaches several curricular units in production and control of medicines and other health products in several study cycles of the FFUP. He develops research activities in modified drug release, nanotechnology, cutaneous formulations and evaluation of their quality, safety and efficacy integrated in the MEDTECH Research Lab (Pharmaceutical Technology) of UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit. Guides or co-directs research work in various cycles of study. He is the author or co-author of several publications in scientific journals in the pharmaceutical area. He is the Director of the Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Technology, the President of the Board of Representatives of the FFUP and a Member of the Senate of the University of Porto. He is the head of the Pharmaceutical Technology Laboratory of the FFUP.