I am a software engineer at Guardsquare.

I am member of the team that researches and develops new analysis techniques for Guardsquare's mobile application security scanning tool AppSweep.

I also help developing new features for DexGuard, Guardsquare's solution to protect Android mobile applications and SDKs.

I am living and working in Munich 🇩🇪. I was born and raised in a small village in the mountains near Coimbra 🇵🇹, moved to Coimbra 🎓 during my PhD and lived there for 11 years.

Until Feb. 2023 I had an academic career at the University of Coimbra. I received my PhD in 2014, became an Assistant Professor in 2016 and got tenure in 2021.

Munich, Germany

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I researched, developed and taught software security, dependability, and reliability engineering. My goal was to help software engineers to create secure systems through automated tools to find vulnerabilities and attacks, and also by proposing benchmarking approaches to select the best alternatives for their use.

I used testing, static analysis, fault injection, vulnerability injection and benchmarking in the assessment of the security and dependability of web and mobile applications, web services, intrusion detection, virtualization, intelligent systems, and databases.

Academic Career

Developed Artefacts

Teaching

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