Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and an Invited Professor in the Law and Business Master’s at the Portuguese Catholic University. Francisco earned his Doctoral Degree in 2015 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches since 2006. Francisco is also a Post-Graduate in European Union Law at King’s College London. He is a member of Governance Lab and a researcher at the Research Centre for Private Law (CIDP). His main research areas are Banking Law, Financial Law, Private Law, Insolvency Law, and European Union Private Law.