Degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Porto in 1978. Doctorate at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, in 1998. Psychiatrist, has the subspecialty of Forensic Psychiatry. He worked at Hospital Magalhães Lemos (HML) between 1985-2011, where he was coordinator of Forensic Psychiatry (2000-2003), coordinator of the Unit of Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology (2003-2011) (implemented the project "Outpatient Psychiatric Monitoring of NGRI", within the scope of the contest for innovative projects of the High Commissioner for Mental Health) and assistant to the Clinical Direction of HML (2005-2006). Between 2001-2004, as a representative of HML, he joined two working groups under the Directorate of Psychiatry and Mental Health Services of the General Health Directorate (DGS). Professor at the Maia University Institute-ISMAI since 1998, he was director of the Department of Psychology and Communication (1999-2009), coordinator of the Master in Psychology of Justice (2007-2016) and President of the Scientific Council of ISMAI (2010-2018). President of the ISMAI Ethics Committee since March 2020. Invited teacher at ICBAS since the academic year 2000-2001. History of teaching activity as a guest at other Universities / Institutions (Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Universidade Lusíada, Universidade Portucalense, National Institute of Legal Medicine, etc.). Psychiatrist and coordinator of the Psychiatry and Psychology Unit of Hospital Lusíadas Porto since 2016. Member of the Committee for Monitoring and Execution of the Compulsory Internment Regime (CAERIC), appointed by the Ministers of Justice and Health (Order 13.363, 2014, published in the DR 213/2014, Series II, 14.11.2014) (2014-2017). Member of the Advisory / Advisory Committee of the “Unidad de Psicología Jurídica y Forense” at the University of Granada since 2016. Member of the Coordination of the Working Group on “Study of the evaluation of existing practice in the provision of health care to patients compulsively admitted to the institutions of provision of mental health care of the National Health Service (SNS) of the ARS North” since 2017. Member of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S) since 2018. Member of the board of the Subspecialty College of Forensic Psychiatry (Ordem dos Médicos) elected in 2018. Member of the Working Group provided for in paragraph 1 of article 27 of Decree-Law 27/2019, of 5/24 (Order 9025/2019 of the Deputy Secretaries of State of Justice and of Health, published in DR 194 / 2019, Series II, of 10.09.2019) since 2019. Member of the Committee for Monitoring and Execution of the Compulsory Internment Regime (CAERIC), appointed by the Minister of Health and by the Deputy Secretary of State and Justice (Order 799, 2020, published in DR 14/2020, Series II, 21.01.2020) (2020-2023). Ordem dos Médicos: he was a delegate of the OM at HML (1999-2011); joined the plenary session of the Regional Councils (2008-2013); he was part of the medical education and education commission of the Northern Regional Section of the Order of Doctors between 2013-2019. President of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Psychology of Justice (SPPPJ) (1997-2013) and of the SPPPJ General Assembly since 2013-2019. President of the Fiscal Council of SPPPJ since 2019. Editor-in-chief of Psychiatry, Psychology & Justice since 2007. Reviewer of Psychiatry, Psychology & Justice since 2007. Reviewer of Acta Médica Portuguesa since 2014. Reviewer of the International Journal Of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health since 2017. Has 77 scientific articles published in national and international journals. He was present as a speaker and / or moderator in more than 200 national and international scientific meetings.