He holds a PhD from the University of Porto on the subject of “Community Artistic Practices and Civic and Political Participation: experiences of theater groups in Brazil and Portugal”; he has a postgraduate degree in Social Theater and Socio-Educational Intervention from the Ramon Llull University (Barcelona) and has trained in dramaturgy at the Académie Internationale des Arts du Spectacle (Paris), Centro Teatro do Oprimido (Rio de Janeiro) and Odin Teatret (Denmark). He is a guest lecturer at the School of Arts of the University of Évora and a researcher at CIIE-University of Porto and CHAIA-University of Évora. He coordinated the books “Art and Community” (2015), “Art and Hope” (2019), “Art, Reinvention and Futures” (2023) published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and authored “Artistic Practices, Participation and Politics” published in Portugal (2021), Brazil (2022), Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Chile (2023). He is a member of the external evaluation team of the PARTIS / Art for Change Initiative – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / BPI Foundation / La Caixa. He was the artistic director of MEXE – International Meeting of Art and Community and Imaginarius Festival, among other curatorial projects, and of various theatrical projects in co-construction with local communities, mainly in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. He provides consultancy and training in different areas – municipalities, festivals and foundations (e.g. Festival de las Arts Comunitàries de Catalunya, Braga 2027 European Capital of Culture Candidature). He is currently artistic director of DESEJAR – Movimento de Artes e Lugares Comuns (Braga25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture) (www.artandparticipation.com).