Sociologist, specialized in the Labour and Organizations domain (ISCTE, 1980), Sociology Assistant in Universidade dos Açores (1980-83) and in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL) from 1983 toa 1992.

Is Associate Professor (since 1999) of the Industrial Sociology in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), and has been Auxiliar Professor from 1992 to 1999. Has been "Gastwissenschaftler" at the ITAS-Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe during 2007-08. Was also "Gastwissenschaftler" at the Fraunhofer Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (ISI-FhG, from 2002 to 2004), and "Visiting Researcher" in the Dept. of Portuguese-Brazilian Studies of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1999).

Presented his dissertation for post-graduate studies (PAPCC, equivalent to M.A.) about "O Poder e o Discurso: a imprensa regional nos Açores" (Universidade dos Açores, 1983), and presented the Ph.D. thesis about the "Processos de Mudança Tecnológica e Organizacional na Indústria Portuguesa" (FCT-UNL), advised by Prof. Juan J. Castillo from Universidade Complutense de Madrid (1991).

In 2001 was unanimously approved in the aggregation exams for the Sociology disciplines group. This exams were made on the newly proposed discipline of "Sociologia das Novas Tecnologias de Informação" and the lesson had the theme "A contribuição da Sociologia para a formação em Engenharia" (Contribution of Sociology to the Engineering education).

Was President (elected) of the Department of Social Applied Sciences of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), from 2001 until October 2007. Now is the responsible for the Industrial Sociology Section at the same Department.

Was National deputy for the TSER-Targeted Social Economical Research program comittee (DG XII, european commission), from 1994 to 1999, and member of the Information Society Mission (Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia) representing the qualifications and employment Minister (1996-97), and of the Labour and Solidarity Minister (1997-2000).

Coordinated several scientific research projects, like MARHE-Emprego and "Recursos Humanos no Sistema Socio-Económico das Pescas" (ADEPE, MQE) from 1996 to 1999, the Portuguese team in the project SOWING-Information Society, Employment and Social Exclusion (FCT-UNL, 4th FP/EC Program TSER) from 1998 to 2001, and the project WorTIS-Work Systems, Time and Space in the Automobile Industry (FCT-MCT), from 2000 to 2004, and now is co-ordinator of the Portuguese team in the project WORKS-Work Organisation Re-Structuring in the Knowledge Society (IET/FFCT-UNL, 6th FP/EC Program Citizens) from 2005. Participated also in several other projects as research team member.

Was an executive elected member of the  RC30 Research Committee on Sociology of Work of ISA-International Sociological Association (1998-2002), and portuguese representative in the Steering Committee of "European Social Survey" organized by European Science Foundation (Strasbourg, França), from 1997 to 2001. From 2006 is the Portuguese representant at TC9 of IFIP-International Federation of Information Processing.

Was a member of the Scientific observatory of the Program CompeteMinho, Associação Industrial do Minho (1999-01), and of the Steering Committe of the project LISTART / RITTS - Inovação Tecnológica na Região de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (CCRLV, Agência da Inovação, Ministério da Economia) from 1998 to 2000.

Had an evaluation role of the european programs TSER, "Improving Human Potential" and  "Transport" (DG Research, CE),  European Science Foundation and at the Community Initiative ADAPT/EQUAL.

President of IET - Research Centre on Enterprise and Work Innovation, of FCT-UNL, financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Director of the journal "Organizações e Trabalho" (APSIOT) since 1997, member of the editorial board of the journal "Sociedade e Trabalho" (MTS) since 1997, of the journal "Sociologia - Problemas e Práticas" (ISCTE) since 2002 and of the "Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública" (ENSP-UNL) since 2000. Is evaluator at the "Research Policy ",  International Sociology and Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) journals. From 2005 is also the Director of IET journal "Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies".

Is a member of APSIOT - Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia Industrial, das Organizações e do Trabalho (having been President of the executive board, the GA and the inspector board), of APS - Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia, do SOCIUS-Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações (ISEG-UTL), and of the CIES - Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (ISCTE).

Participated in evaluation activities regarding the Programs EUREKA, BRITE, COMETT, SPRINT, ESPRIT, FAST, VALUE, TSER, ADAPT Initiative (European Commission), “EUROCORES Programme for European Collaborative Research Projects” and "“Research Networking Programmes” both at the European Science Foundation .

Is responsible for the reading lists at RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) in the following fields:

1. Socio-Economics of Innovation
2. Socio-economics of Fisheries and Aquaculture
3. Technology Assessment
4. Industrial Sociology (FCT-UNL)
5. Studies on the automobile industry

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