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Holds an Architecture degree (University of Porto, 1988) and a PhD (University of Coimbra, 2007). He is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Coimbra, where he is also a Tutor of Masters and PhD Dissertations. He runs with tenure a Design Studio dedicated to project design in heritage sites. He is a practicing Architect with an interest in the design of public-use buildings, and has been invited as a Guest Critic in Design Studio in European schools. He is Co-coordinator of the research group Cities, Cultures and Architecture at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He published Architettonica Percepta (Park Books, 2016), Conimbriga - Interpretação do sítio arqueológico pelo projecto. (e|d|arq, 2017), and “Mértola como didática de interpretação e intervenção patrimonial” in Monumentos #36 (2018).

He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DA-UC) and PhD researcher in the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies – CEIS 20. He graduates in Architecture by the DA-UC in 1994. In 2008, he receives his Master from the Department of Civil Engineering of UC with the dissertation Castelos em Portugal: Retrato do seu perfil arquitectónico [1509-1949], which was published by Coimbra University Press in 2010. In 2016, he is awarded his PhD by the UC with the doctoral thesis Monumentos, Território e Identidade no Estado Novo: Da definição de um projecto à memorização de um legado. He is author of several articles and communications, with particular research emphasis dedicated to the cultural heritage and to its relationship with the territory, the landscape and with a certain idea of national identity. Since 1993, he is simultaneously engaged in architectural practice.

Professor of Archaeology at University of Coimbra. Director of Centre of Archaeological Studies of the Universities of Coimbra and Porto and Coordinator of the PhD on Archaeology and the Master on Archaeology and Territory. Director of the project “Archaeology of the cities of Beja -Roman colony Pax Iulia” and consultant on issues of World Heritage recognition for Unesco; Advisor Board Member of ICOMOS-Portugal. Member of International Committee of SHIRIN — Syrian Heritage in Danger an International Research Initiative & Network, —Director member of the Forum Luso-Brazilian Urban Archaeology network (FAUR). Obtained her DEA degree on Roman History, (University of Bordeaux III, France, 1986), and PhD in Archaeology (University of Coimbra, 2000).