I am a Portuguese research fellow at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM, NOVA/FCSH) since 2021, taking part in its Scientific Committee, the Scientific Commission of the Strategic Project and being the representative of the doctoral researchers of the Territories and Powers Research Group: a "glocal" perspective. My areas of interest are medieval, maritime and urban history and Digital Humanities, with the medieval town being what drives my research. In 2012, I concluded my MA thesis at NOVA FCSH on the “Collegiate Church of Saint Lawrence of Lisbon and its relationship with its patrons”. Not only it was approved with maximum classification, but it was also granted the year Award for Best MA Thesis in History (2013) by the University. I then moved on to a PhD (European PhD) in the same institution, but on a different theme: the port towns of Algarve. The idea was to deepen my knowledge on the socio-economic organization of medieval Portuguese towns. In 2012 I received a PhD grant from FCT and did 3 research stays in foreign universities: U. de Cantabria (Spain,2016,2019) and U. Leiden (Netherlands,2016). I defended my thesis in 2021 and received the prize for best PhD thesis for integrated members of the IEM, NOVA/FCSH in ex aequo with Luís Rêpas. My thesis was the first one to embrace a group of port towns in Portugal as a study object. It also contributed to develop a new proposal for studying Portuguese urban networks and their hierarchies, based on the analysis of urban functions and links and flows. My thesis also helped sharpen the idea of small towns and contributed to introduce new concepts in Portuguese medieval historiography (e.g. failed towns). The results opened many opportunities for me. In 2020, I was invited to participate in the construction of an R&D project as co-PI. FRONTOWNS was successful and received funding from the FCT in 2020. It intends to apply some of the methods and ideas I developed in my thesis in another cluster of small towns and their mutual articulation, but this time on the “dry” frontier between Portugal and Castile. In 2021, I got the position of contracted junior researcher for online edition of medieval sources at IEM, with a project (MEDDOCS) aimed mainly at the publication of municipal sources. This allowed me to build an updated census of municipal and district archives with these sources, promote reflection on the concept of medieval municipal document, and create the first diplomatic classification of these records in Portugal, which is already helping some municipalities to be aware of the importance of their written medieval heritage and apply some of them to the status of national treasure given by the Portuguese State. I have participated in 41 national and international conferences and co-organized 14 international conferences, 4 sessions, 6 training schools, 1 free course and 1 MOOC. I co-edited 7 books and 1 thematic issue in Lusitania Sacra (journal on SCOPUS) and co-write 2 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 7 book chapters and 1 paper in books of proceedings. I also published 1 book, 6 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 8 book chapters, 2 papers in books of proceedings and 1 catalogue contribution. My work has been presented and published in Spain, Serbia, Switzerland, USA and, above all, Portugal, but I intend to continue improving my level of internationalization. I participate and/or participated in 13 national and international (Spain, Netherlands, EU) projects and am member of the FCSH-NOVA UNESCO Chair 'The Ocean's Cultural Heritage'. Between 2021 and 2022, I participated in two teaching innovation projects in the Master of Historical Heritage at the University of Cantabria, where I taught and was invited again to teach some classes in 2023. In 2022 and 2023, I was invited to lecture some classes and subjects at some Portuguese universities (eg: U. of Lisbon; U. Autonoma of Lisbon; NOVA FCSH) and I am co-supervising a master's dissertation in the U. of Lisbon.