Historian, essayist and academic researcher, Licenciatura (BA+) in History (1994), MA in History from the University of Buckingham (2000), with the thesis ‘Almeida Garrett and Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Interaction 1800-1850’, DPhil in History from the University of Buckingham; title of the thesis: ‘Holland House and Portugal, 1793-1840’. Researcher at CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) since 2000, Head of the Library and Historical Archive of INATEL Foundation from 2008, member of the Board for the Celebrations of the Centenary of the Death of Eça de Queirós headed by Prof. Carlos Reis (2000) and researcher at the Services of Investigation on Portuguese Literature and Culture, National Library (2000-2002). Main works on history of Anglo-Portuguese political and cultural relations in the 19th century: Holland House and Portugal, 1793–1840: English Whiggery and the Constitutional Cause in Iberia (London: Anthem Press), 2018, Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), Founder of Portuguese Romanticism: A Study in Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Interaction (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011); my own translation of Lady and Lord Holland’s and Dr John Allen’s manuscript travel journals to Portugal, Três diários de viagem em Portugal em 1808-1809 (Lisboa: Caleidoscópio / CETAPS, 2011); ‘De Westminster a São Bento: a aprendizagem do parlamentarismo em Almeida Garrett’, Actas do I Congresso Internacional de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses (Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 2003), 367-381; ‘«Lisbon declared for Doña Maria»: convidados e habitués portugueses da Holland House nos anos de 1802-1838', Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, n. 21 (2012): 73-103; in co-authorship with Prof. John Clarke: The Reception of the Braganças in England as Recorded in the British Press, 1827-1851’, in: Revista de estudos anglo-portugueses, n. 24 (2015): 147-175; ‘Extract of a Journal of a Journey to Portugal in 1804-1805 by Lord Holland’, Revista de estudos anglo-portugueses, n. 23 (2014): 251-263; ‘Critics to Enthusiasts: the Hollands Discover Portugal’ (Portuguese Studies, 21: 1 (2005): 70-89; in co-authorship with Prof. Carlos Reis and Dr. Luís Costa Dias: Damião de Góis: humanista português na Europa do renascimento (Lisboa: Biblioteca Nacional, 2002); Eça de Queirós: a escrita do mundo (Lisboa: INAPA, 2000) and Garrett Político: catálogo da Exposição (Lisboa: Biblioteca Nacional, 1999).