Researcher at INET-md since 2004, he started his academic trajectory at the Portuguese Catholic University in Economics. He switched to Sociology at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas in 2000. He specialized in Sociology of Music, and finished his degree in 2003 with a dissertation entitled "Time Machine: heard songs, lived phases" He completed a post-graduation course in Sociology of Knowledge in 2004. He joined the research and editorial team of the Encyclopedia of Music in Portugal in the 20th century, coordinated by Salwa Castelo-Branco. In 2005 he integrated the team for preparation of the application of Fado to the National List of ICH and to UNESCO’s Representative List of ICH, having built a database of Historical Phonograms (78 rpm) of Fado and other Popular Music genres. In this context, he discovered the vast field associated with the Revue Theatre in Portugal, having chosen it as a study object for his PhD Thesis, approaching one of the most relevant entrepreneurs in Portuguese show business, Vasco Morgado. He integrated research teams in INET-md's FCT funded projects on related themes, such as Jazz, Phonographic Industry in Portugal and city landscapes. Considering his area of expertise, he was invited by the National Museum of Theatre and Dance to co-coordinate the project History of Theatre and Performance in Portugal, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Driven by his interest for the city of Lisbon (the context of all his research work), he developed substantial work on the toponymy of Lisbon in a parish in the city.