- Group Leader at iMM since 2005
- Executive Director at iMM since 2014
- Sanofi - Institut Pasteur -International Mid Career Award in 2018
- EMBO member since 2016
- Professor, FMUL, University of Lisbon since 2005
- International Research Scholar Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2005-2010)
- Principal Investigator at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (2002-2005)
- European Science Foundation Young Investigator (2004-2009)
- Postdoctoral research at New York University Medical Center (1999-2001)
- PhD in Molecular Parasitology at University College London (1998)