- Group Leader at iMM since 2013 (Investigator FCT-Consolidator)
- Associate Professor (Guest) at FMUL
- Staff Scientist at iMM - Ciência 2007, FCT (2007-2012)
- Postdoctoral research fellow at Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland (2003-2006)
- PhD in Neurosciences, FMUL, University Lisbon; Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (2003)