Associate Professor at NOVA FCT,  Nova School of Sciences and Technology, NOVA FCT.  A NOVA FCT affiliated faculty member at Department of Computer Science  and an integrated research member at NOVA LINCS Research Lab – Nova Laboratory of Informatics and Computer Science, a Research Center hosted at NOVA FCT.

Currently a member of the ACM, ACM – SIGSAC, ACM/Eurosys, IEEE, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and ISOC PT (Internet Society Portuguese Chapter), where he served in the Board of Directors in the period between 2016 and 2020.

His research interests are focused on dependability, security and privacy solutions for computer systems and networks, and for large-scale distributed systems and applications. His research orientation is closely alligned with the strategic plan of NOVA LINCS, and the current ongoing research goals of the Computer Systems Research Group.