October 2008–present: Associate professor in invertebrate systematics, University Museum of Bergen (University of Bergen), Norway

 

Feb. 2008–Sept. 2008: Postdoctoral researcher at the National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon (Portugal)

 

Feb. 2007–Jan. 2008: Postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum, London

 

2007: PhD in systematics and evolution; Queen Mary College, University of London and Natural History Museum, London [thesis title: Systematics, evolution and ecology of Bullidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda), with a molecular phylogeny of the order Cephalaspidea].

 

2003: MSc in Ecology; University of Coimbra, Portugal [thesis title: Systematics and ecology of the genus Haminoea Turton and Kingston, 1830 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea)].



​1996: BSc (“Licenciatura”) in Marine Biology; University of the Algarve, Portugal [thesis title: Opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Madeira archipelago and Selvagens Islands)].