Full Professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, where he is currently Director of the Department of International Relations, Director of OBSERVARE-Observatory of Foreign Relations and coordinator of the PhD in International Relations: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics.

Guest Professor at the National Defense Institute (IDN), the Military University Institute (IUM), the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security (ISCPSI) and Visiting Professor at La Sapienza-Universitá di Roma, Italy and the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara-Türkiye.

He was Deputy/Technical Specialist for International Relations and Combating Terrorism in the Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs, between November 2015 and October 2017; Advisor to the Vice-President of the European Parliament during the 1999-2004 legislature; and NATO-EAPC Researcher for two years (preparing the report “Russia and NATO’s Enlargement”, 2000).

A researcher in the areas of International Relations, Geopolitics and Security Studies specializing in the Euro-Atlantic, Eurasia and Asia-Pacific regions, he is the author and co-author of more than a dozen books and numerous essays and articles published in specialist journals.

Resident analyst on the RTP program “Olhar o Mundo” and guest expert on international politics and security issues for several media outlets.

He holds a degree in International Relations from the Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL), a Master’s in Strategy from ISCSP, the then Technical University of Lisbon, and a PhD in International Relations from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC).