2023-06 - Member of the Presidency of Scientific Board of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra

2022-06 to 2023-02 - Member of the Presidency of Scientific Board of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

2022 to 2023 - Co-coordination of the PhD Programme 'Democracy in the 21st Century' (Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Centre for Social Studies)

2022 - President of the Pedagogical Monitoring Unit (CES)

2021 to 2022 - Academic expert in the UNESCO's Advisory Group 'Countering Racism in Textbooks and Learning Materials'

2020 to 2021 - Working Group for the Prevention and Combat to Racial Discrimination, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality, drawing up the first Portuguese National Plan Against Racism (2021-2025)

2019 to 2021 - Elected Member in the Permanent Commission of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Social Studies

2018-09-26 - 2018 - Presentation of the Key National Messages on Islamophobia (Portugal), organised by Islamic Human Rights Centre (UK) at the European Parliament, 26 September.

2018 to 2020 - Consultant in the Memorial Project for the Remembrance of Enslaved People in Portugal, proposed by DJASS - Association of Afro-descendants and developed in collaboration with the Lisbon City Council.

2018 to 2020 - Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki.

2018 to 2019 - Working Group 'Census 2021 - Ethnic-Racial Issues', Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality (XXI Constitutional Government), aiming at producing recommendations regarding the introduction of a question on ethno-racial origin and/or belonging in the 2021 Census.

2014 - Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra

2013 to 2016 - Elected Member in the Permanent Commission of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Social Studies

2012 to 2012 - Visiting Researcher at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds

2009 to 2013 - Elected member of the Permanent Commission of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Social Studies

2008 to 2013 - Director of the electronic journal 'e-cadernos CES' (www.ces.uc.pt/e-cadernos)

2007 to 2010 - Co-coordination of the Research Group 'Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation' at CES

2007 to 2009 - Executive Board of the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra

2006 to 2010 - CES Representative in the National Agency 'Living Science' ('Ciência Viva'), which aims at the promotion of scientific activities amongst secondary school students

2005 to 2014 - Assistant Researcher at Centre for Social Studies - Associate Laboratory, University of Coimbra

2004 - Teacher Trainer, certified by the Portuguese Pedagogic and Scientific Council of In-Service Training (CCPFC).

2003 to 2004 - Associate Researcher at Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra

Other Activities

2023 - Consultive Board of the Journal 'Análise Social' (ICS, ULisboa)

2019-05-13 to 2019-05-13 - Academic expert at the joint Hearing of experts on the Afro-descendant and Brazilian Communities, by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees - Subcommittee on Equality and Non-Discrimination XIII of the Assembly of the Republic.

2017 to 2022 - Editorial Board of the book collection CES/Almedina

2015 - Editorial Board of the book collection 'Challenging Migration Studies', at Rowman & Littlefield International (United States)

2012 - Editorial Board of the journal 'Race', Ethnicity and Education (London, UK)

2010 - Editorial Board of the journal 'Estudos de Sociologia' (UNESP, Brazil)

2010 - Member of the editorial board of the collection 'Black Culture and Identities', Autêntica Editora (UFMG, Brazil)

2008 to 2016 - Editorial Board of the journal 'e-cadernos CES' (CES-UC)