Obtained his BSc. and MSc. from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, and IST all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He held a 2-year Postdoctoral Scholar position at Carnegie Mellon University and another 2-year with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been also a researcher with the Instituto de Telecomunicações-IT, Lisbon. His research interests include Stochastic Dynamical Systems, Causal Inference, Structure Learning, Network Science, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence. More recently, he has been focusing on developing interpretable and explainable ML or AI strategies to unveil (causal) structure from data within the scope of Complex (Networked Dynamical) Systems. He has been publishing in distinct academic avenues such as the Proceedings of the IEEE, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, AAAI (2023 and 2024 at the Main Track) and Network Neuroscience. He has also served as a PC Member for distinct Conferences such as the IJCAI and the ECAI.