Profile

Originally from Paços de Ferreira, he completed primary, preparatory, and secondary education in local schools. He graduated in Mathematics from the University of Porto in 1990, where he also completed a master’s degree in Pure Mathematics in 1992. In 1997, he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro.

He began his academic career in 1991 as a Trainee Assistant, having developed his entire career within the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. He achieved Habilitation in 2004 and became a Full Professor in November 2019. Since June 2020, he has held the position of Head of the Department of Mathematics, and from the start of his career, he has been an integrated member of the Centre for Mathematics at the University of Porto. In May 2022, he was elected a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

His research interests focus on the statistical properties of chaotic systems. He is the author of around fifty scientific articles and two books in the fields of Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory. He has supervised eight master’s dissertations, eleven doctoral theses, overseen eight postdoctoral projects, and coordinated four research projects. He has delivered lectures at over a hundred conferences and seminars across five continents and has completed long-term stays at renowned institutions, including ICTP (Trieste, Italy), the Centre for Theoretical Physics (Luminy, France), IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (Chile), Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil), Loughborough University (United Kingdom), and the University of Maryland (USA).

During the four years he lived in Rio de Janeiro for his PhD studies, he developed a deep passion for Brazilian popular music and honed his skills on the guitar, with a particular focus on bossa nova.