He is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same university. His research combines sociological, historical and ethnographic approaches and focuses on the production of social and cultural inequalities in different spatial contexts of Northern Portugal. The study of the sociological legacy of Pierre Bourdieu’s work is one of his main interests. He is the author of the recently published “The structuration of lifestyles in the city of Porto: a relational approach”, in L. Hanquinet & M. Savage (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture (London, Routledge, 2016).