Before, he was deputy-director of a Research Center in Portugal (IN+/IST), worked as Advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of State of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, and served as the Portuguese National delegate to the European Research Area Steering Committee on Human Resources and Mobility. He is currently Coordinating-editor of Higher Education, a leading journal of higher education studies, and sits in the editorial boards of Higher Education Policy; Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management; Asia Pacific Education Review, and the Journal of Higher Education and Science. He is currently enjoying a six months sabbatical spell at the Center for Global Higher Education, Institute of Education, UCL, London, UK and at the Graduate School of Education at Waseda University