PhD in Law and Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching for approximately 20 years, with special emphasis in recent years - since 2013 - on Labour Law I, II (degree) and III (Master's Degree in Law and Legal Practice). CIDP and IDT researcher.
He has held several academic roles, including member of the Assembly of Representatives (1998/2002), the Pedagogical Council (1999/2002), the Board of Directors (2001/2002), the Scientific Council (2015/2017) and the School Council (2018/2019) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Regular speaker at conferences and postgraduate courses, namely at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto) and the Universidade Nova, as well as the Institute of Labour Law of the Faculty of Law of Lisbon (IDT), the Research Centre for Private Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (CIDP), and the National Labour Law Congresses; he is also executive coordinator of the IDT postgraduate course. He is the author of several dozen books and articles, especially in the area of Labour Law.
Since 2015, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee for Collective Negotiation of the Labour Relations Centre as a specialist.
Deputy director of the Revista Jurídica Luso-Brasileira (CIDP), since 2015.
Lawyer and Consultant at Abreu Advogados (since 2013).
Member of the list of presiding arbitrators of the Economic and Social Council (since 2012).
He participated in the drafting of several diplomas, namely the one relating to the 2003 Labour Code and its complementary legislation, having monitored, as Advisor to the Secretary of State for Labour of the XV Constitutional Government, the negotiation of these and other diplomas, in the Permanent Committee for Social Coordination.