He is post-doc. in Urban Morphology/Civil Engineering (FEUP), PhD in Urban and Spatial Planning (IUU-UVa), DEA in Modern City and Architecture (UVa) and Dipl. Arch. (ESAP). He is Head of the Urban Planning Division (Matosinhos Municipality), Integrated Researcher at ISTAR-Iscte, PHD Professor in the doctorate programme on Architecture for the Contemporary Metropolitan Territories (Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and Invited Professor in the Master Programme on Geographic Information Systems Applied to Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Landscape (UPV). He is Scientific Councillor of the Portuguese-Language Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM), Editorial Board Member of the scientific journal Revista de Morfologia Urbana (RMU) and co-founder of the International Symposium Formal Methods in Architecture. He was an independent expert for the European Commission and external reviewer at the Chalmers University of Technology (Architecture and Urban Design Programme). He headed architecture and urbanism programmes/departments in different schools and he was Director-Secretary of the Centre for African Studies, University of Porto (CEAUP). He is co-editor of the books Formal Methods in Architecture (Springer) and Formal Methods in Architecture and Urbanism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and of the Special Issue 'Formalizing Urban Methodologies' (Urban Science Journal). He authored the book Maputo: (auto)organização e forma-dinâmica urbana (University of Porto Press).