*Winner of the CES Award for Young
Social Scientists from Portuguese-speaking Countries 2007ex aequo.
International award for the best monograph written by young researchers from any of the nine countries having Portuguese as
their official language.
Winner of the Bernardino Machado Award 2003 for the best graduate student in Anthropology - University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Anthropologist - social studies of art and material culture, anthropology of illness.
[BA/Licenciatura in Anthropology; MA in Sociology of Culture; PhD Candidate in Sociology of Culture - Centre for Social Studies, University
of Coimbra - PhD
Grant-holding Researcher - Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal.]
Lyricist of the portuguese projects/bands - “At Freddy’s House” and
“Pyroscaphe”, with work registered in two albums, one EP and three compilations.