Biography

PREVIOUS AND CURRENT SCIENTIFIC AND/OR ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1991-1994: Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
1991-1996: Monitor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal
1996-1997: Assistant at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal
1997-2002: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
2002-2003: Assitant Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
2003-2011: Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
2006-2011: Director of the Service of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since 2006: Head of the course units in the field of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since January 2006: Coordinator of the Cardiovascular R&D Unit at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since 2009: Director of the PhD programme in Cardiovascular Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since 2010: Director of the Master programme in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since March 2010: President of the Council of Representatives at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since March 2011: Director of the Department of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Since January 2012: Full Professor of Physiology, Pathophysiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal


PREVIOUS AND CURRENT CLINICAL POSITIONS
1990-91: Resident for general training, Hospital São João, Porto, Portugal
1997-2003: Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hospital São João, Porto, Portugal
Since 2003: Staff Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Hospital São João, Porto, Portugal
Since 2010: Senior Consultant, Hospital São João, Porto, Portugal
Main research interests include the mechanisms underlying myocardial hypertrophy and progression to heart failure, as well as, the pathophysiology of diastolic dysfunction, using a bench-to-bedside approach and back.

Awarded over the last fifteen years with 33 research grants (total funding: 3,000,000 € granted from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, European Union FP7, Portuguese Society of Cardiology, Portuguese Academy of Medicine and Portuguese Ministry of Health) and 98 scientific prizes from the Portuguese Societies of Cardiology, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, General Surgery and Diabetes, European Society of Cardiology and Portuguese Academy of Medicine.

To date published 234 full-papers and 519 abstracts in peer review journals.

Supervisor of 7 post-docs, 27 PhD students and 30 MSc students.