– Retired Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health and Introduction to Consciousness Sciences, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (FML).
– Ex-Director of the Postgraduate Course in Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (FML).
– Ex-Director of the Postgraduate Course in Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and Other States of Consciousness, University Fernando Pessoa, Oporto, Portugal.
– Ex-Director of LIMMIT – Mind-Matter Interaction Laboratory of Therapeutic Intention (FML).
– Co-founder of ALUBRAT – Brazilian Portuguese Transpersonal Association
– Co-founder of Imaginal – Portuguese Association of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
– Co-author of the book “Psychology of Consciousness – a transpersonal perspective.”
– Co-author of the book “Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis – theory, research and practice.”
– Member of the Scientific Council of the Bial Foundation and several scientific journals.
– Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist.
– Research interests: psychology and psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, clinical hypnosis, Ethnomedical, exceptional experiences and psychology and spirituality.