Based on his documented biography:
- He was born and raised in Viseu, Portugal and went on to study physics at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon.
- He then earned a Ph.D. in physics at Imperial College London in 2005.
- After that, he did postdoctoral research at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy before joining the MIT faculty in 2016.
