I hold a PhD in Human Resources Management and Development from ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Currently, I work as an Associate Professor at the School of Economic Sciences and Organizations (ECEO, Universidade Lusófona), and a Guest Professor at ISCTE Executive Education. I also serve as an Associate Editor at the Spanish Journal of Psychology, and Team Performance Management: An International Journal. My research interests regard leadership and teamwork in extreme environments (e.g., healthcare; firefighting; polar regions), and small groups as complex adaptive systems. On this regard, since I obtained my PhD in 2015, I published over twenty research papers in Q1 and Q2 journals (SCOPUS). Furthermore, during the last eight years, I won two highly competitive postdoc grants funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, worth 53.640€ (e.g., SFRH/BPD/114934/2016); was Principal Investigator of four competitive research projects, with national funding from the Portuguese Polar Program, worth 4.000 € plus logistic support two stay in Antarctica over 1-month, and international funding from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (worth 10.000$; NTR-INGRoup 19 » ranked 3rd out of 23 applications), and the European Space Agency (worth 41.700€). I was also a Team Member in two international research projects with funding from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, worth 20.000£ (SCAR COVID-19 Project), and the European Space Agency, worth 10.000CHF (AO-2017-Concordia_014_Cantisani). My work has been published in journals such as Group & Organization Management, the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, The Journal of Psychology, Leadership, and Small Group Research. Recently, I led two scientific expeditions to King George Island (Antarctica), and my research has received the attention of national (e.g., Diário de Notícias) and international (e.g., Wall Street Journal) media.