Career

• Since 1997: Coordinator Professor, Escola Superior Agrária/Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
• 1989 - 1997: Auxiliary Professor, Escola Superior Agrária/Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
• 1987 - 1989: Assistant professor, Escola Superior Agrária/Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
• 1985 - 1987: Coordinator of Centro de Formação Profissional Agrícola de V. N. de Cerveira, Direção Regional de Agricultura do Norte, Braga, Portugal
• 1983 - 1985: Teacher of Nature Sciences and Biology, Escola Secundária de Paredes de Coura, Portugal

Roles

• 2014 - 2015: Expert of the European Innovation Partnership Focus Group on 'Soil organic matter content in Mediterranean regions'
• 2012 - 2016: Member of the management and steering committees, Food and Agriculture COST ACTION, FA1204 - Vegetable grafting to improve yield and fruit quality under biotic and abiotic stress conditions, RTD/EU
• Since 2011: Member of the editorial board of the Agrotec (technical and scientific agricultural journal), Publindústria, Porto, Portugal
• 2010 - 2014: Coordinator of the Accredit Commission, ESA/IPVC
• 2010 - 2010: Co-chairmen of the IHC2010 Organic Horticulture Symposium - Productivity and sustainability, 28th International Horticultural Congress, International Society of Agricultural Sciences (ISHS), 22-27 August 2010, Lisboa, Portugal; Co-editor of the ISHS Acta Horticulturae 933, 2012
• 2009 - 2014: Member of the board and editor of the journal of Associação Portuguesa de Horticultura (Portuguese Horticultural Association, ISHS affiliated)
• 2002 - 2002: Council member of the International Society of Agricultural Sciences
• 2001 - 2010: Course coordinator in Escola Superior Agrária/Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal (ESA/IPVC)
• 2000 - 2006: Director of the Pedagogical Council, ESA/IPVC
• 2000 - 2004: Board president of Associação Portuguesa de Horticultura (Portuguese Horticultural Association, ISHS affiliated)
• Since 1999: Member of the evaluation committee of the National Innovation Agency, Lisboa, Portugal
• 1992 - 1999: Board vice-president Associação Portuguesa de Horticultura (Portuguese Horticultural Association, ISHS affiliated)

Qualifications

• 1995 - PhD. in Agronomic Engineering, University of Reading, United Kingdom
• 1989 - MSc. in Crop Production, University of Bath, United Kingdom
• 1983 - First degree in Agronomic Engineering, ISA/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Awards and Honors

• 2016 - Title of Horticóloga de Honra, Associação Portuguesa de Horticultura, Portugal (Horticologist of Honour, Portuguese Horticultural Association)
• 2015 - 2nd place in the AICARE competition ‘Revolutionary solutions for local food systems’ (co-author), Italian Agency for Responsible and Ethical Countryside and Agriculture, International Conference on Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society, Lazio Expo 2015, AgUrbRome, 14-17 September, Rome
• 2014 - Best Poster Award (co-author), Scientific Track of the 18th IFOAM Organic World Congress

Interests

• Plant physiology
• Plant nutrition
• Vegetable crop production
• Organic horticulture
• Agroecology
• Social agriculture