Work Experience

2017-Present - Editor-in-Chief, Regional Science Policy & Practice

2016-2022 - SADF’s Regional Co-operation Research Programme Director

1985-Present - Associated Professor with Aggregation at the Azores University

2010-2018 - Elected Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International

2008-2015 - Elected President of Portuguese Association for Regional Development

2007-2009 - Elected member of the European Organizing Committee (ERSA)

2000-2008 - Director of the daily newspaper ‘a União’

2001-2013 - Assistant Professor with tenure at the Azores University

1998-2001 - Assistant Professor at the Azores University

1996-1998 - Vice President of the Portuguese Institute for Nature Conservation in Lisbon

1996-1998 - Invited Professor at the Azores University

1991-1994 - PhD Student and Research Assistant at Newcastle University

1987-1996 - Assistant Professor at the Azores University

1986-1987 - Invited Assistant Professor at the Azores University

1985-1987 - Expert at the Azores Regional Department for Public Administration

1983-1985 - Expert at the Office of Urban Planning of the Municipality of Porto

1982-1983 - Assistant for the Minister of State and Quality of Life

1981-1982 - Service in the Army

1980-1981 - Expert at the Foreign Investment Institute in Lisbon

1979-1981 - Monitor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Law, Lisbon University