Lecturer and artist-researcher at the interface of performance and visual arts, seeking to represent a figurative space-time, combining sound and visual narratives with unusual places, and fostering audio-visual processes that move between past and present, and between individual and collective memory. He is an Invited Lecturer at the Department of Arts, Design and Humanities of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (Portugal), an Expert Evaluator at EIT Culture & Creativity, a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (Koln, Germany) and a Member of the Board of Advisors of All About Curating (Berlin, Germany). He holds a PhD in Art Studies - Arts/Drama and Performance Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, a post-doctorate in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and a post-doctorate in Religious Studies from the Faculty of Theology of the Portuguese Catholic University and the Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies. He is a research fellow of the Research Institute in Design, Media and Culture (ID+) at the Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, and a collaborating researcher of the Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CITER) at the Portuguese Catholic University and of the Centre for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM) at the University of Minho. He is an affiliated scholar of the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (SELMA) at the University of Turku, Finland, an affiliated researcher of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, an associate researcher of the Laboratoire International de Recherches en Arts (LIRA) at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France, and an affiliated researcher of the Centre for Autobiographical Artistic Practices (NuPAA) of the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. He is also a member of various scientific organisations, including the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP) in France, the International Ambiances Network (AMBIENCES) in France, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) in Sweden, the Portuguese Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM), the Portuguese Society for Music Research (SPIM), the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) in the Netherlands, the AO NORTE Film Society, the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) in the United States, the European Academy of Religion (EuARe) in Italy, the Memory Studies Association (MSA) in the Netherlands, and the Observatory of Contemporary Religious Architecture (OARC) in Spain. As an artist-researcher, his projects focus on specific places, analysing through a practice-led research process the role of memory in configuring individual and collective identities, seeking to reflect on the importance of site-specificity and sense of place and the relationship between performativity and memory representation. He has developed over 45 site-specific practice-led research projects and presented the results of these projects at various conferences and events. He is the author of several academic articles on theatre and performance studies, research methodologies through artistic practice, memory studies, sociology of art, art and cultural studies, religious studies, and art and technology. He has presented his work in museums, concert halls, public spaces and events in Portugal, Austria, England, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and South Korea.