He studied at the Université de Nice, France, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1986. Then worked for over 6 years at the SACLANT Undersea Research Center (NURC) - actual NURC -, La Spezia, Italy. At present he his Professor at the University of Algarve, that he joined in June 1992. At the University of Algarve he was coordinating the three year european project ``Geophysical seafloor exploration with a towed array in shallow water'', under the MAST II program of the European Union. He was also coordinating INTIMATE (INternal TIde Measurements with Acoustic Tomography Experiments) project under PRAXIS programme of FCT, Portugal, the project LOCAPASS (Passive source localization with a random network of acoustic bouys in shallow water) of programme The Ocean and its margins from FUP-MDN, the project TOMPACO (Tomografia Passiva Costiera) as subcontractor of DUNE, CNR - Italy and finaly the project ATOMS: study of ocean filaments off Cape San Vincent (southwest of Portugal) using acoustic tomography, terminated at the end of 2004.
In 2007 he terminated his collaboration under the Acoustic Oceanographic Buoy Joint Research Project as well as projects NUACE, RADAR and UAB under his coordination. Between 2008 and 2011 he will be coordinating two European (FP7) projects "Underwater Acoustic Network" UAN and "Ocean Acoustic Exploration" OAEx, involving several institutions in Europe, Canada and Brasil.