Hi, and welcome to my website!

I work at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), an associated lab of the Universities of Porto and Aveiro,  as an Assistant Professor of Research (Investigador Auxiliar). I am also an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Economics (FEP) of the University of Porto. I am also a research affiliate with IZA Institute of Labour Economics.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham. During my PhD, I was a visiting student at the IAE-CSIC in Barcelona.  I am interested in  Labour Economics, Economics of Education, Public Economics, and Microeconometrics.

I am the Portuguese representative at the European Network of Graduate Tracking. This group was created by the European Commission to support European Union Member States with the implementation of the Council Recommendation on tracking graduates.

You can find my CV here .

NEWS:

• New research grant of 2.9 million euros under the Horizon European Framework Programme (as co-investigator) for the period 2025-2028 focusing on education-employment transitions. 

• My paper "Specialists or All-Rounders: How best to select university students?" is now available in the Journal of Human Capital (2024 Volume 18, Number 2, 227 - 271) [here]

• New working paper availale at IZA and CESifo "Keeping it in the Family: Student and Degree Match"