I graduated in Physics and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at the Technical University of Lisbon in 1997, and subsequently completed the post-graduation in Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and obtained the D.Phil. degree in Neuroimaging from the University of Oxford, where I worked with Prof. Peter Jezzard at the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), in 2003. I was then invited lecturer at Thammasat University, in Thailand, before returning to Portugal in 2004 as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI), of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. I joined IST as Assistant Professor in 2007, I was conferred habilitation in Biomedical Engineering by the same school in 2017, and I am currently Associate Professor with the Department of Bioengineering at IST, University of Lisbon. I am also the coordinator of the Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab (LaSEEB) of the Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisboa (ISR-Lisboa). I have been Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology, University College London, and Visting Scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.