Awards & Honors
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
European Research Executive Agency (REA), European Union ∙ February 2026
I have been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to work on my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) research project Sherlock4Py at the Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA), part of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
INESC-ID Best PhD Student Award
INESC-ID, Lisboa ∙ December 2025
This award recognises my PhD research conducted at INESC-ID (2020 – 2024).
ELSA Mobility Grant
ELLIS Network, European Union ∙ October 2025
Received an ELSA Research Mobility Grant (up to 3000 €) for a stay at the 🇬🇧 Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK 🇬🇧, from October to December 2025.
MSCA COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ∙ August 2025
I have been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to work on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND research project ALLIES, at the Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA) && at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), both institutes belong to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain.
Vencer o Adamastor (VoA) Award - 3rd Edition
INESC + Publico ∙ April 2025
I am the proud recipient of the VoA Award 2025! This 20,000€ scientific prize acknowledges innovative contributions by young scientists (<40y) in Portugal across the fields of computing, electrotechnics, and related disciplines.
Excellence in Teaching IST Award (2024)
Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) - Universidade de Lisboa ∙ May 2025
ELISE Mobility Grant
ELLIS Network, European Union ∙ June 2024
Received an ELISE Research Mobility Grant (up to 5000 €) for a stay at 🇨🇿 CIIRC, Czech Technical University in Prague 🇨🇿, from June to July 2024.
COST Travel Grant
COST Action, European Union ∙ September 2022
COST Travel Grant to attend AITP 2022 under COST Action CA20111.
Excellence in Teaching IST Award (2021)
Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) - Universidade de Lisboa ∙ May 2022
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
ESEC/FSE 2021 ∙ August 2021
FCT PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal ∙ September 2020
Scholarship to pursue a four-year Ph.D., with research hosted at INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa (UL), and CIIRC, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Czechia.
Academic Excellence Diplomas (2016 – 2019)
Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) - Universidade de Lisboa ∙ July 2019
REN BSc Merit Award
REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais ∙ July 2017
Press Coverage

I had the privilege of receiving the attention of the popular press on the following occasion:

Memberships
  • MCR Associate Member, Trinity College, Oxford, 2025.
  • Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 – 2026.
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024.
  • Member, COST Action EuroProofNet (2022 – 2025).