Co-founder, CEO and R&D director at SPAROS Lda. MSc at ICBAS/Porto University (Portugal) and PhD at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Past positions as post-doc at SINTEF Aquaculture (Trondheim, Norway) and Researcher at CCMAR / University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal). Has coordinated/participated in several research projects and PhD students in fish larval nutrition (SPAROS and CCMAR) in Portugal, Norway, Spain, Vietnam, Brazil and Denmark. Was vice-chair of COST action LARVANET.