Degree in Medicine from the University of Coimbra completed in 2001, General Internship at Hospital de Aveiro completed in 2003, Complementary Internship in Medical Genetics at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, concluded in 2008. Since then, he has been a geneticist at the Medical Genetics Unit Pediatrics Hospital, at the Prenatal Diagnosis Cente Maternity Bissaya Barreto and at CGC Genetics. He also collaborate in part-time with Hospital do Funchal, for three years, and Centro Hospitalar do Algarve, for seven years.

In addition to the assistential activity, he has participated in several research projects that resulted in the co-authorship of fifteen articles indexed in PubMed and, in 2008, in the clinical research prize of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics. The focus of clinical activity has been prenatal diagnosis and oncogenetics. Still, in the near future, it intends to study the interpretation of variants and notions of bioethics.