Chair of the Dermatology Department, University Hospital of Coimbra, Local Health Unit of Coimbra, E.P.E. (since 2022). Senior Graduate Assistant (since 2009) responsible for the unit of Cutaneous Allergy and the GA2LEN Urticaria and Angioedema and Atopic Dermatitis Center of Reference and Excellence (UCARE and ACARE) of Coimbra.

Sub-Director of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC) for Institutional Relations and International Affairs (since 2024). Invited Professor of Dermatology (2015), with Habilitation (2022), FMUC, Coimbra, Portugal.

Secretary General of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV)(2025-29), Previous Board representative at the Executive Committee of the EADV (2022-24) and invited member of the EADV Scientific Programming

Committee and of the EADV Task forces on Urticaria, Contact Dermatitis and Cutaneous lupus erythematosus.

Previous Chair of the EECDRG (European Environmental Contact Dermatitis Research Group) (2020-22) and previous President of the ESCD (European Society of Contact Dermatitis) (2012-14).

Author/co-author of 25 book chapters, >300 papers in peer-reviewed journals mostly on contact dermatitis, drug eruptions, urticaria, atopic dermatitis