I was born in Lisbon, in 1991. I am currently working on my PhD on the History of late medieval Western Maghrib. I am particularly interested in re-evaluating the issue of the establishment of Portuguese coastal outposts in Marinid- and Wa¿¿asid-controlled territories in present-day Kingdom of Morocco. I argue as to the existence of a quintessential frontier society in Western Maghrib, from 818/1415 to 928/1521. This research was made possible by a doctoral grant provided by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), from 2015 to 2019. I am supervised by Professor Hermenegildo Fernandes (University of Lisbon) and Professor Christophe Picard (Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne.) I obtained my M.A. in History of the Medieval and Islamic Societies in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon in 2014, with a grade of 19 out of 20. My research focused on the conceptualization of a frontier society in fifth/eleventh century Coimbra region. I also hold a B.A. in History from the same institution (2012), with a grade of 18 out of 20. I am a researcher of the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. I was also a teaching assistant of "History of Medieval Islam" in the same university, in tandem with Professor Hermenegildo Fernandes (Fall semester of 2017/2018 and 2018/2019). I have been awarded 4 University of Lisbon-sponsored merit-based grants due to exceptional scholarly performance (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014), as well as 2 research grants (University of Lisbon- and Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa-sponsored, respectively in 2012 and 2016). I have delivered national (Lisbon, Porto, Évora) and international talks (Ceuta, Madrid, Leeds, Catania, Washington DC, Barcelona, Alicante, Paris, Durham) and published in national and international scientific journals and volumes. My research is centred on Christian-Muslim relations in Western Maghrib and al-Andalus from the 5th/11th to the 10th/16th centuries, particularly in sketching the physical signs of a frontier, in reviewing its conceptualization in coeval sources and in mapping the itineraries of Muslim and Christian agents within it. I have also developed an interest in the perceptions of the Turk in anti-Ottoman Iberian literature, as well as in methodological and theoretical issues of historiography.