Mining Engineer, Director of the Mining Engineering Department and member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Founder of Master and Doctoral courses in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) at the University of Porto. The research interests are in OHS, Ergonomics, and Mining Project, areas where supervised 14 doctoral theses and more than 100 master's dissertations, already completed, in Portugal and abroad. In the past 5 years, published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in Scientific Journals and Books, and 5 Books as editor.