Professor at DA - Arts Department at FAL - Faculty of Arts and Letters of UBI - Beira Interior University (Portugal), since 2006 in Design. Coordinator of Mobility of the 1st and 2nd Cycles of Industrial Design at UBI - Beira Interior University. PHD in Design. Design Researcher. Industrial Designer. Integrated Research Member of VICARTE - Glass and Ceramics for the Arts I&D Unit. Collaborating Research Member at iA* - Arts Research Unit and member of the iLab DESSIDE- Design for Sustainability, Social Innovation, and Development and of DesignaLab - since 2025. Research Member of CIEBA - Centre for Studies and Research in Fine Arts I&D Unit at Design Group. Fields of Research: Contemporary Glass and Ceramics, Sustainable Design, Craft Design in Portugal.