Profile

After a PhD at Stanford University in 1996, supervised by Yakov Eliashberg, and one year of pos-doctoral training as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, I have been a member of the Mathematics Department (DM-IST) and of the Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems (CAMGSD) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) since 1997, as a Full Professor since 2011 and coordinator of the Geometry group since 2013.

I have held temporary visiting positions at the Fields Institute (Toronto, Canada, 2000-01 as Jerrold E. Marsden pos-doctoral fellow), Mittag-Leffler Institute (Sweden, Sep-Dec 2015), Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, Jan-Apr 2016 as Special Visiting Professor), ETH Zurich (Switzerland. May-Jun 2023) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA, Sep 2023).

In 2016 I was co-recipient of the Prix du Concours annuel 2016, Groupe I – Mathématiques, from the Classe des Sciences of the Académie Royale de Belgique, for work On the minimal number of periodic Reeb orbits on a contact manifold.

I have coordinated as Principal Investigator the following FCT research projects: Hamiltonian Actions and Integrability in Geometry and Topology (2012-15), Geometry and Mathematical-Physics (2013-16) and Symplectic Geometry and Conservative Dynamics (2018-22).

I was Director of the FCT doctoral program Lisbon Mathematics PhD (IST and FCUL, 2014-2023) and President of CAMGSD in the 2-year period 2021-2022.

I was president of DM-IST in 2009 and in the 4-year period 2017-20. I was a member of the School Council (2011-16), of the Coordinator Council for Faculty Evaluation (2013-2020) and of the School Assembly (2021-2024) of IST.

I was president of the Portuguese Mathematical Society in the 4-year period 2010-2014 and I have been an editor of Portugaliae Mathematica since 2015.