Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Journal of Comparative Law in Africa – Centre for Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town (South Africa).

Member of international research projects:
ICLA – Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa – Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (South Africa).
MARSAFENET – NETwork of experts on the legal aspects of MARitime SAFEty and security – COST ACTION IS1105 – Member of Working Group 2 – New Developments of the Economic Activities at Sea – www.marsafenet.org

Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Collaborator in the Law of the Sea Group at CIIMAR – Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research – University of Porto.

Most Relevant Publications:
The European Union. Aims, objectives and organisational structure, Luso Livro, Lisbon, 1993;

Mixed agreements in Community Law. Contributo para a compreensão do seu fundamento jurídico, SPB – Editores & Livreiros, Lisbon, 1997;

Political Science. Study Guide, AAFDL, Lisbon, 1999; and Political Science. Guia de estudo, Colecção de Manuais II, Faculty of Law, University Press, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, 1999;

The internationalisation of marine natural resources. Contribution to understanding the international legal regime of the joint exploitation of oil and natural gas on the continental shelves, the potential exploitation of mineral resources in the Area, fishing on the high seas and the effects of the respective conventional regulations in relation to third States, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2005;

Final Report of the Project for the Collection and Codification of Customary Law in Force in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Bissau, 2011;

“The governance models for oceans and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”, South African Yearbook of International Law, vol. of 2012 (2013), pp.111-130;

“A Southern African Approach to the Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and Common Resource Management Systems”, Working Paper 2013/01 – FoKos – ForschungsKollegSiegen, Universitat Siegen – available at www.uni-siegen.de/fokos;

“Setting the field for future ‘mineral rushes’: some reflections on the international regime for the exploitation and exploration of marine minerals”, in Marta Chantal Ribeiro (coordinator), 30 Years After the Signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: the Protection of the Environment and the Future of the Law of the Sea, Coimbra Editora, 2014, pp. 119-146;

“Some notes on the Advisory Opinion of 1 February 2011 of the Sea-Bed Disputes Chamber. Are we in the presence of a glimpse of the future evolution of the jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?”, SOBRINO HEREDIA, J.M. (Dir.), in La contribución de la Convention de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar a la Buena Governanza de los Mares Y Océanos – The Contribution of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to Good Governance of the Oceans and Seas – La contribution de la Convention des Nations Unies sur le Droit de la Mer à la Bonne Gouvernance des Mers et des Océans. IV Colloque Ordinaire de L’Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer, Editoriale Scientifica, vol. I, pp. 343-362, 2014;

“Introduction to the Constitution of the Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe”, Oxford Constitutions of the World and Oxford Constitutions Online, Oxford University Press, 2014.