Previous profesional experience

• Founder and Solicitor at MTFG – Medeiros, Tão, Dinis Ferreira & Torres Gonçalves (2012–2018)
• Founder and Head of K.LEX Portugal Advogados (2018–2021)
• Visiting Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (2010–2018)
• Visiting Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (2014–2017)
• Consultant at Darts-IP, Brussels (2013–2016)
• Listed as an Arbitrator at the ACIF-CCIM Arbitration Centre (2024)
• Member of the Department of Bio-law at the International Chair of Bioethics (2024)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Biennial Conference on Medical Law, Centre for Biomedical Law, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra (2023)
• Founding member of the Lipedema World Alliance (2023)
• Member of the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (5th term 2015–2020, elected by the Assembly of the Republic)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Evidence-Based Health – ISBE (since 2021)
• President of AMEDIJURIS – Portuguese Association for Law and Medicine
• Chair of the General Assembly of AIEV – Valongo Industrial and Business Association (since 2020)
• Vice-President of the General Assembly of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Valongo (since 2019)
• Member of the Executive Committee of Fórum Portucalense – Civic Association for the Development of the Northern Region
• Editor of SCRIPTed, A Journal of Law, Technology & Society (www.script-ed.org)
• Held various political offices, notably as a municipal councillor and metropolitan councillor
• Best Lawyers. Listed since 2021 | Privacy and Data Security Law
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Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Lusíada University of Porto (António Martins da Cruz Award) (2007)
• LL.M. (Master’s) in ‘Innovation, Technology and the Law’, University of Edinburgh (2008)
• Short Postgraduate Course in ‘Medical Civil Liability’, University of Coimbra (2008)
• Short Postgraduate Course in ‘Informed Consent’, University of Coimbra (2008)
• Postgraduate Degree in Medical Law, Portuguese Catholic University (2009)
• Enrolment in the PhD programme, University of Edinburgh
• Enrolment in the postgraduate programme in Pharmacy and Medicines Law (2022)

Languages

• English
• Spanish