I received a Ph.D. in Biology (Ecology and Biosystematics) from the University of Lisbon in 1995. I am an assistant professor at the Faculdade de CIências da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon) and invited curator of Vascular Plants at Herbarium LISU (Jardim Botânico/Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência-MUHNAC/Universidade de Lisboa). I am a researcher in the Natural History & Systematics Group and in the Plant, Lichen and Fungi Systematics, Biogeography & Conservation Genetics subgroup of the CE3C.