PhD in Management (specialization in Finance), Master and Post-Graduated in Finance, and Degree in Business Management. Professor at Porto Accounting and Business School (ISCAP)/Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) in the scientific area of Management. Director of the Master in Accounting and Finance at ISCAP/IPP. Member of the ISCAP/IPP Advisory Council since 2018, member of the Technical-Scientific Council since 2019 and member of the Pedagogical Council since 2020. Lecturer in higher education since 1991, teaching couses in the field of finance. Professional experience in banking (1991-1992, BPA, planning and control area), in financial consulting (1992-1998, Ernst & Young and Cia.) and in CFO (1998-2002, Microfil, SA). Integrated researcher at the Centre for Organisational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (CEOS.PP). Author of papers published in international scientific journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus and in conference proceedings. Member of the review committee for international periodicals and conferences. His main areas of research are corporate finance, financial markets and financial market efficiency.