1998-present Coordinator, International Scientific Review Board, INESC-Porto, Portugal

1987-present Research Consultant, INESC, Portugal

1994-present Coordinator of the Exchange Scholar Program between University of Florida and Portuguese Universities (1-2 visitors per year)

1995, 1997 Member of the organizing committee of the International Sian Ka’an Conference on Neural Systems (co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation) held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

1996, 1997, 1998 Invited Scientist of the Portuguese Science and Technology Ministry

1996 Project reviewer for the Portuguese Science and Technology Ministry

1982-1987 Senior Researcher INESC-Aveiro, Portugal

1985 Vice President Portuguese Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

1984 Invited Researcher Psychiatrich Klinik Konigsfelden, Switzerland

1980-1985 General Secretary of the INIC Research Center at the EE Department, University of Aveiro