Associate Professor (since 1999) of Sociology at Nova School of Sciences and Technology (UNL), with habilitation for Full Professorship since 2001. Is coordinator of the PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" (UNL) from 2009. He was also Senior Researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2011-19). Is Director of the Observatory of Technology Assessment (OAT) of CICS.NOVA centre (since 2015). He is also a member of the Scientific Board of CICS.NOVA centre.
Sociologist, specialized in the Labour and Organizations domain (ISCTE, 1980), was Assistant Lecturer at Universidade dos Açores (1980-83) and from 1983 at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL). Was "Gastwissenschaftler" at the ITAS-Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe during 2007-08, and at the Fraunhofer Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (ISI-FhG, 2002-04), and "Visiting Researcher" at the Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1999), and at the School of Labour Studies of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) in Canada, 2017.
He is member of the Topic Group Natural Interaction with Social Robots, and of the Topics Group "Ethical, Legal and Socio-Economic Issues" also from the European euRobotics platform. He coordenates the national Agenda of Research & Innovation on "Work, robotization and employment qualification in Portugal" (Ministry of Science and Technology)
Presented his dissertation for post-graduate studies (PAPCC, equivalent to M.A.) about "O Poder e o Discurso: a imprensa regional nos Açores" [Power and Discourse: the regional daily press in Azores] (Universidade dos Açores, 1983), and presented the Ph.D. thesis about the "Processos de Mudança Tecnológica e Organizacional na Indústria Portuguesa" [Processes of Technological and Organisational Changes in Portuguese Manufacturing Industry] (FCT-UNL), advised by Prof. Juan J. Castillo from Universidade Complutense de Madrid (1991).
In 2001 was unanimously approved in the aggregation/habilitation exams for the Sociology disciplines group. These exams were made on the newly proposed discipline of "Sociologia das Novas Tecnologias de Informação" and the lesson had the theme "A contribuição da Sociologia para a formação em Engenharia" (Contribution of Sociology to the Engineering education).
Was President (elected) of the Department of Social Applied Sciences of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), from 2001 until October 2007. Now is member of Scientific Board of the Nova School of Sciences and Technology.
