I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, and a researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa. I received my Ph.D. degree in Information Systems and Computer Science in 2009 from the Technical University of Lisbon. My research interests include natural interfaces, immersive analytics, and 3D object analysis and retrieval, and I was involved in several research projects in these and other areas. I was a member of the organizing committees of INTERACT 2011 and Eurographics 2016 and general chair of SMI 2018, EuroVis 2019, and ACM ISS 2020 conferences. I am a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics).

I develop my research activities in the Graphics and Interaction scientific area at INESC-ID Lisboa, with expertise in Computer Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction. During the last two decades, I participated in several research projects in these areas.

Since 2002, I have been teaching several courses on computer science at different universities. These range from introductory courses to advanced master ones.

I supervised more than thirty M.Sc. students, two Ph.D. candidates, and one post-doc researcher.

I published my most significant research results in more than a dozen papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

I published several book chapters and archival publications.

I have published more than forty papers on peer-reviewed scientific conferences in the last two decades. From my first paper at a national conference to presentations on widely recognized conferences, I published relevant results of my research results this way.

I received my Ph.D. in 3D shape retrieval in July 2009 and my M.Sc. in sketch and image-based retrieval in June 2005, both in Information Systems and Computer Science from the Technical University of Lisbon.