I was born in Covilhã, Portugal, in 1975, and I’ve always studied IT, multimedia and journalism. I'm a Design Multimedia degree student at Beira Interior University.

I’m a journalist at Lusa - Portugal’s news agency since 2001 and started producing multimedia in 2008. I’m the bureau chief of Lusa in Mozambique since April 2017.

Before Mozambique:

• I oversaw the Guinea-Bissau news operations and general management, both for Lusa and the Portuguese public radio and television between 2013 and 2017.
• In that period, I’ve also collaborated with the United Nations as a consultant and multimedia trainer for the Guinea-Bissau’s mission communications office.
• I reported from the field in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, travelling between Bissau and Conacri.
• In Guinea-Bissau, I was also the producer of ‘No Firmanta Paz’, a 20 episode series aired in Portuguese broadcaster RTP in association with the UN, about peacebuilding efforts in the country.

I’ve worked as a reporter for Lusa covering specific events in Cape Verde (2006), Germany (2006), China (2010), Israel (2010/11) and S. Tomé and Príncipe (2015).

I'm an IEFP (Portugal's professional training authority) certified trainer.

All of this started when I first entered a local radio station studio, back in 1991 - and since then collaborating with several local newspapers and multimedia projects.