About

I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in June, 20, 1972. I received my MSc degree in Electrotechnical and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, and my PhD degree from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), in 2008. I am an Associate Professor of the Informatics Department of FCT/UNL and an integrated member of the NOVA LINCS Research Center (Rated Excellent). Before joining NOVA LINCS, I was a member of Centro de Informática e Tecnologias de Informação (CITI), since 2000. Before joining FCT and CITI, I worked as a junior researcher at the Software Engineering Group at INESC. My main research interests revolve around Experimental Software Engineering (ESE) and span from the evolution in ESE to its applications to several Software Engineering areas. Since 1994, I worked in Object-Oriented Design, Software Process Improvement, Software Evolution and Reengineering, Component-Based Software Engineering, and, more recently, in Software Languages Engineering and Requirements Engineering, using Experimental Software Engineering approaches to improve the validation of claims in those areas. I co-authored over 40 papers in peer reviewed international journals, conferences, and workshops, and served as PC member on several occasions. I am currently helping in the organizing committee of RE 2017 and acting as Organizing Chair of QUATIC 2016. Previously, I served as Publication Chair of HuFaMo 2015, PC Chair of ESELAW 2015, General Chair of SEDES'2012, PC Co-Chair of QUATIC’2004 and QUATIC’2010, as organizing co-chair of QUATIC’2007, and as member of the organizing committee of UML 2004 and CSMR 2001. I co-authored the paper receiving the best paper award in CAiSE 2014, and the paper receiving the János Szentes Award for the best paper on Software Metrics presented at the 6th ECSQ, 1999.