Ph.D. in Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing, from University of Minho and Biomedical Engineer with a Master degree in Medical Electronics. More than 10 years of experience in industry, regarding his experience in coordination and execution of R&DI and engineering projects. In the last years, he has been working on the innovation field, focused in developing ideas and its implementation through multidisciplinary R&DI projects (national and international) in order to promote new technological areas. During its activity, he has been supervised master degree students and reviewing scientific articles for per reviewed journals. Currently he is an innovation manager at INCM (Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office