Born in 1982 in the magnificent city of Porto, studied at FCUP where he got his PhD in 2011 with a thesis entitled Individual Information Measures: Applications to Computational Complexity.

Currently, he is a postdoc at the Security Security and Quantum Information Groupat Instituto de Telecomunicações with the grant SFRH/BPD/76231/2011 from FCT.

Most of his research has been focused on Kolmogorov complexity and computational complexity.