Date of birth: 30/01/1957
Place of birth: Cabeção, Évora
Professional career: District Attorney
Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, June 1981
I - Positions
A) Professional career
- Justice Auditor at the Centre for Judicial Studies (15/3/1982 – 16/9/1982)
- Delegate of the District Attorney in Almada (traineeship) (16/9/1982)
- Delegate of the District Attorney in Montemor–o-Novo (23/5/1983 – 30/10/1985)
- Delegate of the District Attorney in Abrantes (30/10/1985 – 30/7/1988)
- Delegate of the District Attorney in Loures (29/7/1988 – July/1994)
- Training judge at the Centre for Judicial Studies (October 1986 – July 1994)
- Assistant District Attorney at the Lisbon Administrative Court (11/3/1999 – 16/9/1999)
- District Attorney in Ponta Delgada (16/9/1999 – 27/1/2000)
- District Attorney at DIAP in Lisbon (27/1/2000 – 7/3/2001)
- District Attorney at the Civil Court of Amadora (accumulation regime) (1/2/2000 – 19/6/2001)
- District Attorney at the district Attorney General’s Office in Lisbon (7/3/2001 – 28/5/2002)
- District Attorney at the district Attorney General’s Office in Lisbon (13/8/2004 – 1/9/2005)
- District Attorney at DIAP in Lisbon (accumulation regime) (25/10/2004 – 15/7/2005)
- District Attorney at the Administrative and Tax Court of Lisbon
- Deputy Attorney General at the South Administrative Central Court, by order issued by the Counsellor, since 26 March 2010
- Assistance functions to the District Attorney General at the district Attorney General’s Office in Lisbon, by decision issued by the Supreme Council of the Public Prosecutors' Office, dated 8 April 2011
B) Previous positions and missions
- Vice-president of the Council of the Justice Officials (July/1994 – 11/3/1999)
- Representative of the Attorney General's Office in the “Monitoring Committee”, chaired by Professor Germano Marques da Silva, within the scope of the Mission Structure of the so-called “Electronic Surveillance” (May/2001 - 28/5/2002)
- National Deputy Director of the Judicial Police (28/5/2002 – 13/8/2004)
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Judicial Studies (1/9/2005 - 26/3/2010)
- President, in several consecutive years (from 2005 to 2009) of the jury responsible for selecting São Tomé candidates for the initial training course at the Centre for Judicial Studies within the scope of the cooperation programme between Portugal and São Tomé
II – Postgraduate courses
- Postgraduate course in Public procurement from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2008 (90 lecture hours)
- Attendance of the Postgraduate course in Sanction rights of regulatory authorities from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2009
III – Participation as a speaker
- Conference held in May 2008, at the Training School for Magistrates in Macao and open to all the community on Vigilância Electrónica
- Conference held in May 2008, at the Training School for Magistrates in Macao and open to all the community on Direitos de Autor. Obra protegida. Autor. Tutela Penal
- Conference held within the scope of For-Jus 2008 – International Forum of Justice on Organizações Criminosas, Máfias e Terrorismo. Sistema de Cooperação Judiciária e Policial na Comunidade Europeia e no Mundo, which took place in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul – Brazil, from 15 to 17 October 2008
- Conference held in October 2009, within the scope of the commemorative seminar of the 10th transition anniversary, open to all civil, academic and judicial communities, organised by the Training School for Magistrates in Macao, on the Responsabilidade civil extracontratual do Estado pela actividade Jurisdicional. Erro Judiciário e responsabilidade dos Magistrados (22 October 2009)
- Conference held within the scope of magistrates training, at the Training School for Magistrates in Macao, on 21 October 2009, on Meios de obtenção de prova e meios de prova. Meios típicos de prova.
- Co-coordinator and co-author of the 2-volume work, Comentário das Leis Penais Extravagantes, Un. Católica Editora.