Aveiro University
This degree took 5 years to complete but it was totally worth it. 3 years spent on hardcore engineering (physics, calculus, chemistry, biology, zoology) and another 2 studying how pollutants and waste travel through ecosystems.
Education & Training
I tried to acquire knowledge in 3 areas I consider fundamental: Engineering (how things work), Economics (how the world works) and Management (how corporations work). Nowadays I focus more on digital skills.
Wageningen University
During my ERASMUS period I did a short course on plant and soil analysis and travelled around central Europe with almost no money. A formative experience in independence and cultural exposure.
York University
I was lucky to study in Toronto for a short period. I arrived a couple of weeks before the 9/11 attacks in New York. The experience of being abroad during such a pivotal moment shaped my worldview significantly.
ISEG
After a lot of technical work I got the feeling many decisions happen in a universe I could not quite understand, so I decided to take a master in economics. I knew nothing about monetary policy, inflation or markets — it opened a completely new perspective.
INDEG | ISCTE
When two of my employers went bankrupt due to inability to cope with a turbulent and quick-changing context, I decided to take a management course that could also teach me about keeping up with the pace of change through innovation.
ISCTE
I enrolled in Business Management to have my thesis in innovation policy published and graded by an official management institution. A few months after starting, I resigned from my job and decided to pivot towards digital skills.
Le Wagon
It was a long time since I had my brain challenged like this and I loved it. In 9 weeks I went from basic HTML knowledge to building full web applications with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and deploying to production.
Team Treehouse
Team Treehouse is my go-to coding learning tool. From Photoshop to data science, this site has almost every digital skill one needs to learn in 3-minute videos and a good gamification engine.