I have a teaching position at the University of Lisbon since 1982, with a couple of years in between teaching at the Technical University of Lisbon. My career can be considered atypical, given that my bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in psychology have led me to spend 30 years teaching psychologists at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, while the last 13 years have been spent teaching at the undergraduate, post-graduate, master and doctoral levels in Human Resources Management at the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), also at Lisbon University. I am a Senior Researcher at Centre for Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) for more than a decade. Currently I am an Associate Professor of Management at ISCSP, where I have been, for several years in a row, an executive coordinator of the Human Resources’ Unit, of Master’s and/or Doctoral courses, and of the dozen of psychology courses taught at different undergraduate and master’s levels. I have specialized in positive psychology which granted me roles as member of the Board of Directors of the World (IPPA) and the European (ENPP) associations of positive psychology (current). I am the Chairperson of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Global Peace Sustainability at the University of Lisbon. Over the years, I have created and coordinated three post-graduation courses – in Family Interventions, Applied Positive Psychology and Education for Global Peace Sustainability. Although my path seems non-linear, there has been a common cross-cutting theme: research, teaching and publication activities are devoted to the study and promotion of the best in people, while addressing societal and global issues. I have published 8 books, more than 60 journal articles and 40 book chapters, with a focus on wellbeing, public happiness, peace education, hope, flow and motivation, organizational compassion, community resilience. I taught as an invited scholar at over 25 universities in four continents and organized over a hundred conferences, at the national and international level. I am part of a worldwide group of researchers studying the topic of positive psychology and well-being/happiness, at an individual, organisational and community level, having been a pioneer and reference in Portugal and abroad. In this context, I have developed scientific and consulting work in public and private companies, and in educational, social and community sphere, creating the first national postgraduate training course in positive psychology in Portugal and the second in Europe. Also, I was the first and one of the few to research on public happiness, and on the merging of peace and positive psychology. The curator work of developing programs of teaching and training, both on global peace education, positive psychology, Solution Oriented Approaches and Appreciative Inquiry, has been seminal for Portugal and abroad, as much as the scientific and applied work on wellbeing at the university level (I co-organized the first ever international conference on the topic). I was an invited scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Harvard University, Pennsylvania University, Free University of Brussels, Salamanca University, North-West University in South Africa, Palermo University in Argentina, Valladolid University in Spain, and Saint Joseph University in Macao, China. For around 40 years I supervised internships in clinical, educational and community settings, and monitored around a hundred research projects for master's and doctoral degrees. I taught since the beginning of my career at the master and PhD levels and coordinated teaching programs supporting the development of research of hundreds of students at the two schools where I have been teaching and researching. This includes teaching at those academic levels in South Africa, North-West University, and Macau, Saint Joseph University, for several years and being a reviewer and academic advisor for their research units.