| since 10/00 | Research Fellow at Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS), Division of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 02/95 - 09/00 | Research and teaching assistant at the Technical University Braunschweig, Information Systems Group, Germany |
| 11/93 - 12/93 | Student research assistant at the Technical University Braunschweig, Database Group, Germany |
| 09/00 | "Foundations of a module concept for distributed object systems" (in English), Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany |
| 10/89 - 07/94 | Diploma in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University Lisbon, Portugal, (Overall classification with 15 points out of 20) |
| 07/89 | High school Belém-Algés (Lisbon), Portugal. Main subjects: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, (Overall classification with 19 points out of 20) |
| 10/93 - 03/94 | ERASMUS Scholarship, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany |
| 10/93 - 03/94 | "Describing Semantics of OMT using OSL" (in English), Technical University Braunschweig, (Classification at the Technical University Lisbon with 18 points out of 20) |