Profile

I was born in Lisbon after the Carnation Revolution and grew up on the south side (a.k.a. margem sul). I obtained my PhD in 2007 at the Université Paris VII and have been working since then at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

My research interests are broad. They include algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, K-theory, homotopy algebra and the theory of motives. In a nutshell, algebraic geometry studies the solutions of systems of polynomial equations, algebraic topology studies continuous spaces up to deformation, K-theory can be defined as linear algebra parameterized over a continuous space, homotopy algebra is a generalization of classical algebra where the notion of equality is replaced by the notion of homotopy, and the theory of motives is a fantastic creation of Grothendieck that I leave the reader with the pleasure of discovering.

I am the author of the book “Noncommutative Motives”, published by the American Mathematical Society and prefaced by Yuri I. Manin.

My research was funded by Gulbenkian, the Foundation for Science and Technology, the National Science Foundation, the Clay Institute and Huawei.