- Licenciatura in Geography and Regional Planning, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Human and Social Sciences Faculty, 1987 – 1991.
- Master in Statistics and Information Management, Institute of Statistics and Information Management, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1991 – 1993.
- Ph.D. in Information Management, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2005 (“Computational Intelligence in Geographic Information Science Problems: the case of Zone Design
- Portuguese Environmental Agency
Research assistant – Portuguese Digital Environmental Atlas, 1993-1996
- National Center of Geographical Information (CNIG)
Project leader - research project involving the coordination of a team of 6 technicians developing databases and geographic information systems 1996-1997
- Institute of Statistics and Information Management, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Teaching Assistant 01/02/1997 – 01/05/2005
- “Top 5% most cited recent articles in International Journal of Wildland Fire” - Catry, F. X., Rego, F. C., Bação, F., Moreira, F. (2009) “Modeling and mapping wildfire ignition risk in Portugal”. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Volume: 18, Issue: 8, Pages: 921-931.
- "Top-50 most cited articles" published in Computers & Geosciences 2005-2010 – “The self-organizing map, the Geo-SOM, and relevant variants for geosciences” Computers & Geosciences, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
- Top Paper in the International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services - GEOWS 2009, Cancun, Mexico, 2009.
- 1º Place in the Best Paper in the Conference Award (Thematic area of Geography, Oceanography and Environment) - Jornadas do Mar, Portuguese Naval Academy, Lisbon 2004.
- 3º Place in the Best Paper in the Conference Award - 7th AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe), Conference on Geographic Information Science, Heraklion, Greece, 2004.
- ESRI Scholarship, GIScience 2004 Conference, Maryland, USA, October 2004.
- Best Academic Presentation - Award Annual Conference of SAS Users (CAUS), 2001 Lisbon.
- European Science Foundation (ESF) grant, EURESCO Conferences “Socio-Economic Research and Geographic Information Systems - Geographic Information and Analysis in the Social Sciences”, Espinho, Portugal, 1999.
- Master Fellowship from National Join of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) 1991 – 1993
