Tinoca has a PhD and is a Professor at the Instituto de Educação (IEUL), Universidade de Lisboa. He has a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Chemistry Teaching (1999) and a PhD in Science Education (2004). He is a member of the UIDEF Instituto de Educação Research Unit, a collaborator at the Distance Education Laboratory, and a member of the special interest group on Teacher Education at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. His main research interests concern the impact of professional development for teachers on student learning and inclusion, teacher learning in/for innovative contexts, assessment methods as promotors of systemic reform, and higher education pedagogy. He is currently leading two research projects, LC4Inclusion (FCT) and CATIE (IEULisboa). Recently, he has been the national coordinator and work package leader for both EDiTE (EU Marie-Sklodowska-Curie) and EdUSchool (EU Erasmus+). For more, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/luistinoca.