• Associate professor at the Departament of Anthropology ISCTE
• Investigator of NEANT-ISCTE and of CEA-ISCTE and CITCEM-FLUP
• Member of the board of directors of CEA-ISCTE
• Head of the Central Library of African Studies
• Director of the Research Line Wars and Conflicts of CEA-ISCTE
• Head of SPEP (Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa)
• Coordinator of the Ethiopian Studies Group of SPEP-SGL
• Representantive of the HAKLUYT SOCIETY in Portugal
• Member of EASA and ISOLA
• President ofACA-M
• Member of the board of directors of FEVR