My academic profile and the teaching and research activities I have carried out since 1995 are focused in Economic and Social History. Researcher of the Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), my main research projects are set in contemporary times, especially in the study of the 20th century. The Portuguese institutional space, with some comparative incursions, is my favorite field. The research work I have carried out reflects interaction between a huge research and teaching. My teaching ethics, the appeal to scientific creativity and the sense of research and writing for an audience that is not just specialized constitute the central features of the academic profile that the curriculum reflects. Considering the doctoral topic that I studied and the high impact that this work had on the scientific community and other knowledge communities, in the last twenty years I have built a consolidated specialization in the themes of fisheries and the economy of the sea, which has extended to the issue of economic corporatism and, more recently, the study of ideas and institutions identified with the concept of social economy. From my scientific production I highlight the individual books, the books I coordinated, all the international articles and chapters of widely circulated collective works and also a series of cultural communication writings, from scripts for films and exhibitions to the critical re-edition of works of great significance. for the social memory of maritime communities.