He was a scholarship holder and researcher under the bilateral agreement between Portugal and India signed in 1993 (Culture of the Indus Valley Civilization) and a scholarship holder of the Foundation for Science and Technology; he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques – Sorbonne) and researcher at the Center d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asiedu Sud (CNRS-EHESS). He is currently a professor at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, taught Science of Religions and Oriental Studies, and is currently a professor of the course of European Studies, Lusophone Studies and International Relations. He was one of the founders of the Portuguese Association for the Study of Religions and director of the Indian Studies section of the Portuguese Journal of Science of Religions. He is a member of Lisbon’s Geographical Society and the Association of Oriental Studies of the Faculty of Letters.
He was one of the founders of the António Quadros Foundation and its Vice-President. He has devoted several years to the comparative study of Eastern philosophies and languages (Sanskrit and Pali). He dedicated twenty-one consecutive years to the study of the Indus Valley civilization, joining the international community in an attempt to decipher the ideographic writing system, having published A Short Grammar of the Harappa Language in 2011, followed by the complete publication of his works coming soon (including the study of the pre-classical Indian astronomical system). He is also an evaluator of scientific articles for publication, submitted to the Journal of Gandhāran Studies (University of Peshawar – Institute of Archeology & Social Anthropology).