Education and training

Escuela Internacional de Doctorado de la Universidad de Sevilla (EIDUS)

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  • PhD in Law, in the Specialty of Law and Taxation

  • Seville, Spain

Research topic: Taxation of personal income resulting from crypto-assets in the Iberian Peninsula: study of the Portuguese and Spanish regimes from a comparative law perspective.


  • Field(s) of study: Law , Accounting and taxation
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 8

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (FDUL)

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  • Master in Law and Legal Practice in the Specialty of Corporate Law

  • Lisbon, Portugal

- Dissertation: Civil Responsibility of Non-Executive Directors and Blockchain

  • Level in EQF: EQF level 7

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (FDUL)

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  • Law degree

  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 6

Instituto de Direito Penal e Ciências Criminais (IDPCC)

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  • Course in Criminal Law in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Law

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Final evaluation work: "Neurohacking in the Digital & Artifical Era".

  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Instituto de Direito Penal Económico e Europeu (IDPEE)

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  • Specialization Course in Compliance and Criminal Law

  • Coimbra, Portugal
  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Instituto de Direito Económico, Financeiro e Fiscal (IDEFF)

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  • Intensive Course in Cryptoassets: Taxation, Accounting and Market Regulation

  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Instituto de Direito Penal Económico e Europeu (IDPEE)

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  • Course in Administrative Offenses Law

  • Coimbra, Portugal
  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Alamedas Office/ Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, I. P.

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  • E-Trainer Course

  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Field(s) of study: Teacher training without subject specialisation

Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, I. P.

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  • Initial Pedagogical Training Course for Trainers (FPIF) with Pedagogical Skills Certificate (CCP)

  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Field(s) of study: Teacher training without subject specialisation

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

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  • Advanced Postgraduation Course in Company Law

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Consisting of:

  1. Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Governance (2017);
  2. Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Finance (2019-2020);
  3. Intensive Specialization Module in Corporate Finance Digital (2020).
  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

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  • Postgraduation Course in Corporate Finance

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Final evaluation work: "Corporate Finance Law - Cryptoassets as Digital Financial Instruments".

  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

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  • Intensive Specialization Module in Corporate Finance Digital

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Final evaluation work: "Corporate Finance Digital: Does High Frequency Trading serve as an amplifier of systemic risk during global catastrophic events, such as the COVID-19 Pandemic?".

  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

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  • Postgraduation Course in E-Commerce

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Final evaluation work: "E-Commerce & Blockchain".

  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

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  • Postgraduation Course in Corporate Governance

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Final evaluation work: "Corporate Tax Management: extra legem tax planning - are we facing an option or a need?".

  • Field(s) of study: Law
  • Level in EQF: EQF level 5

Work experience

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Lawyer

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Practice Areas:

  1. Tech & Digital Law (Web3, FinTech, DeFi, DLT, Tokenization, Crypto-Assets, CBDC, Metaverse, AI, Robotics, etc.);
  2. Tax Law (International Taxation, FinTax, Cryptotaxation, etc.);
  3. Criminal Law (Cybercrime, FinCrime, Asset Recovery, Organized Crime, etc.);
  4. Administrative Offences Law, Regulation & Compliance (TMT, Finance, Banking, AML/ CFT, Data Protection, Cybersecurity, Digital Services, Digital Markets, etc.).

Registered in the database of the Embassy of Luxembourg since October 2022, on the Belgian Embassy's list of German-speaking lawyers since November 2022, on the German Embassy's list of German-speaking lawyers since February 2023 and on the list of German-speaking lawyers at the Swiss Embassy since December 2025.

  • Sypar

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Chief executive officer

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Details:

  1. Co-Founder & CEO.
  2. Sypar is a professional services tech startup at the forefront of the digital and artificial revolution, specializing in three Web 3.0 & Web 4.0 essential areas: FinTech, Metaverse, and Artificial Intelligence. As part of Europe's Digital Decade (until 2030), the ways in which people, work, create, share and even how companies innovate, operate and interact with their customers and business partners will be completely transformed. In this digital & artificial era, in which technology is revolutionizing our society, Sypar transforms legal, regulatory, and tax services into LegalTech, RegTech, and TaxTech products and leads companies and individuals through the complex ecosystem of Web 3.0 & Web 4.0 technologies.

  • Germanik Link

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Chief executive officer

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Details:

  1. Co-Founder & CEO.
  2. Germanic Link is a network of German-language translators that combines human experience with artificial intelligence systems to increase the quality and efficiency of translation processes.​

  • Legal Place

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Vocational instructor

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Originally, the Legal Place was a community of legal scholars and professionals invested in revolutionizing access to legal education and knowledge through AI technologies. As an instructor, I collaborated in the creation of the following online courses:

  1. Introduction to the Crypto-Taxation Framework under the Personal Income Tax in Portugal, prepared between August and October 2023;
  2. Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation vs Markets Abuse Regulation, prepared between November 2023 and February 2024;
  3. The new legal definitions of crypto-assets provided for in MiCA, prepared between November 2023 and March 2024.

The Legal Place evolved to become Lexstream, a training and professional development platform for all lawyers and professionals in the legal sector.

  • Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Lawyer

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Main areas of activity:

  1. Criminal Law, with special focus on Fincrime, Cybercrime, International Asset Recovery & Organized Crime;
  2. Tax Law, with special focus on Cryptotaxation & NHR statute;
  3. Administrative Offences Law, Regulation & Compliance (banking sector).

  • Instituto para o Desenvolvimento Social (IDS)

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Vocational education teacher

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Professional Course for Legal Services Technicians modules taught:

  1. Labour Law;
  2. Property Law;
  3. Family and Inheritance Law;
  4. Commercial Law; Lawsuit in Civil Procedure;
  5. Appeals in Civil Procedure;
  6. General Provisions on Jurisdiction in Civil Procedure;
  7. Forms of Procedure and Common Declarative Procedure;
  8. Preventive Measures in Civil Procedure;
  9. Preventive Measures and Declaration Process in Civil Procedure;
  10. General Principles of the Labour Procedure;
  11. The Institution, Hygiene and Safety at Work;
  12. Common Declarative Procedure and Enforcement Procedure in Labour Law;
  13. The Human Group at Work;
  14. Commercial Registry;
  15. Civil Registry;
  16. Movable Property Registry;
  17. The "Habilus" in the Central Section Area;
  18. The “Habilus” in the Area of Management and Accounting;
  19. Judicial Secretaries and Statute of Justice Officials;
  20. Judiciary Magistrature;
  21. Professional Aptitude Test.

  • BNP Paribas Securities Services - Sucursal em Portugal

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Financial markets back office administrator

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Details:

  1. Business Implementation Management (BIM): Business implementation for the Frankfurt branch.
  2. Activity: implementation of securities, real estate, and venture capital investment funds, among other financial instruments.

  • Teleperformance Portugal, S.A.

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Customer service representative

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Details:

  1. Project Orange Communications S.A. (Switzerland).
  2. Part-time and student worker regime.
  3. Inbound/ Outbound/ Backoffice.

  • Arvato – Bertelsmann AG

  • Lisbon, Portugal

Customer service representative

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Details:

  1. Project Microsoft/ Xbox (Germany).
  2. Part-time and student worker regime.
  3. Inbound/ Outbound.

Language skills

Mother tongue(s)

Portuguese

Other language(s)

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Writing

German

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English

C2: Proficient user
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C1: Proficient user
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Spanish

C1: Proficient user
C1: Proficient user
B2: Independent user
B2: Independent user
B2: Independent user

French

A2: Basic User
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A1: Basic User
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Italian

A2: Basic User
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Networks and memberships

AI & Partners

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Network Partner

European Carbon Offset Tokenization Association (ECOTA)

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Fellow

Digital Euro Association (DEA)

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Fellow

Blockchain Industry Group (BIG)

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Ambassador

European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers (EFCL)

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Member

European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA)

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Member

Associação Portuguesa de Blockchain e Criptomoedas (APBC)

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Associate

Legal Experts Advisory Panel (LEAP) - Fair Trials

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Legal Expert

Forum Penal

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Effective Associate

Publications

Introdução ao Enquadramento da Tributação de Criptoativos em Sede de IRS – Pré e Pós Orçamento do Estado para 2023

2023 https://www.almedina.net/introducao-ao-enquadramento-da-tributacao-de-criptoativos-em-sede-de-irs-pre-e-pos-orcamento-do-estado-para-2023-1690474738.html

Book

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Publisher: Almedina

Introduction to the Crypto-Taxation Framework Under the Personal Income Tax in Portugal – Pre- & Post State Budget for 2023

2023 https://www.almedina.net/introduction-to-the-crypto-taxation-framework-under-the-personal-income-tax-in-portugal-1691071228.html

Book

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Publisher: Almedina

Legal definition and categorization of crypto-assets under MiCAR

2026 https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035321421/chapter2.xml

Collective work article (Research Handbook on FinTech)

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 29–46 Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

The construction of the legal definition of cryptoassets under MiCAR, including legal subcategories: a very brief updated summary based on the guidelines of the European Supervisory Authorities

2025 https://www.almedina.net/mica-a-new-framework-for-the-european-crypto-assets-market-1736737524.html

Collective work article (MiCA - A New Framework for the European Crypto-assets Market)

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho & Manuel Quelhas Poças Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 67-87 Publisher: Almedina

The relationship between MiCAR and MAR: a brief updated introduction based on the guidelines of the European Securities and Markets Authority

2025 https://www.almedina.net/mica-a-new-framework-for-the-european-crypto-assets-market-1736737524.html

Collective work article (MiCA - A New Framework for the European Crypto-assets Market)

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho, Alberto José Figueiredo, & Manuel Quelhas Poças Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 263-319 Publisher: Almedina

From the Exclusion of the Concept of Blockchain to the Delimitation of the Concept of Distributed Ledger Technology Under MiCAR: Brief Notes

2025 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-83402-8_10

Collective work article (Fintech and the Emerging Ecosystems - Exploring Centralised and Decentralised Financial Technologies)

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: Financial Innovation and Technology Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 267-281 Publisher: Springer

Neurohacking in the Digital and Artificial Intelligence Age: Legal Aspects of Protecting Neural Information

2025 https://www.lawjournal.digital/jour/article/view/580

Journal article

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: Journal of Digital Technologies and Law Volume, Issue and Pages: Vol 3, No 3, pp. 397-430

Нейрохакинг в эпоху цифровизации и искусственного интеллекта: правовые аспекты защиты нейронной информации

2025 https://www.lawjournal.digital/jour/article/view/580

Journal article

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: Journal of Digital Technologies and Law (JDTL) Volume, Issue and Pages: Vol 3, No 3, pp. 397-430

Extended reality for education: Mapping current trends, challenges, and applications

2024 https://jptk.ppj.unp.ac.id/index.php/jptk/article/view/376

Journal article

Authors: Agariadne Dwinggo Samala, Ljubisa Bojic, Soha Rawas, Natalie-Jane Howard, Yunifa Miftachul Arif, Dana Tsoy, & Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi Kejuruan Volume, Issue and Pages: Vol. 7 No. 3 (2024): Regular Issue, pp. 140–169

Blockchain Technology in Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Beyond

2024 https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jim/issue/view/1089

Journal article

Authors: Agariadne Dwinggo Samala, David Mhlanga, Ljubisa Bojic, Natalie-Jane Howard & Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) Volume, Issue and Pages: Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024), pp. 20-42

Da construção da definição legal de criptoativo prevista no MiCA, incluindo das subcategorias legais: brevíssimo resumo

2023 https://www.almedina.net/mica-estudos-sobre-a-nova-regulacao-europeia-de-criptoativos-1697770805.html

Collective work article (MiCA - Estudos sobre a Nova Regulação Europeia de Criptoativos)

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 377-432 Publisher: Almedina

Da relação entre o MiCA e o MAR: brevíssima introdução

2023 https://www.almedina.net/mica-estudos-sobre-a-nova-regulacao-europeia-de-criptoativos-1697770805.html

Collective work article (MiCA - Estudos sobre a Nova Regulação Europeia de Criptoativos)

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho & Alberto José Figueiredo Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 89-113 Publisher: Almedina

Defense of the victim's interests in cases of use of the financial system to dissipate the proceeds of cross-border fraud: in particular, the relevance of the Anti-Money Laundering preventive mechanisms in Portugal

2023 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20322844231173913

Journal article

Authors: Vânia Costa Ramos & Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: New Journal of European Criminal Law (NJECL) Volume, Issue and Pages: Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 397-420 Publisher: SAGE Journals

Defesa dos interesses patrimoniais da vítima em casos de utilização do sistema financeiro para dissipação dos proventos de fraudes transfronteiriças: em especial, a relevância dos mecanismos preventivos da Lei 83/2017, de 18.03.

2023 https://www.almedina.net/estudos-sobre-law-enforcement-compliance-e-responsabilidade-empresarial-1677508092.html

Collective work article (Law Enforcement, Compliance e Responsabilidade Empresarial)

Authors: Vânia Costa Ramos & Diogo Pereira Coelho Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 279-307 Publisher: Almedina

O High Frequency Trading serve de amplificador do risco sistémico durante eventos catastróficos globais, tais como a pandemia de COVID-19?

2022 https://www.cidp.pt/publicacao/o-direito-ano-154-2022-iii/278

Journal article

Authors: Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: O Direito Volume, Issue and Pages: Ano 154.º, III, 2022, pp. 559-604 Publisher: Almedina

Defesa dos interesses patrimoniais da vítima em fraudes transfronteiriças – Relevância dos mecanismos preventivos previstos na Lei 83/2017, de 18.09.

2022 https://apav.pt/apav_v3/index.php/pt/1291-miscellanea-apav

Magazine article

Authors: Vânia Costa Ramos & Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: Miscellanea APAV Volume, Issue and Pages: N.º 16, Jul. 2022, pp. 36-47 Publisher: Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima (APAV)

Auditorias forenses: brevíssimo excurso informativo

2021 https://www.idpcc.pt/revista/anatomia-do-crime-n-o-14/

Journal article

Authors: Carlos Pinto de Abreu & Diogo Pereira Coelho Journal Name: Anatomia do Crime Volume, Issue and Pages: N.º 14, Julho-Dezembro 2021, pp. 55-78 Publisher: AAFDL Editora

Cooperação judiciária para efeitos de defesa dos interesses patrimoniais da vítima

2021 https://www.almedina.net/cooperacao-internacional-para-efeitos-de-recuperacao-de-ativos-1621589850.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwzLCVBhD3ARIsAPKYTcRZCFyz4LkflhPM8tJLXJdnulNwPpAJeU0WqRzSjMHe9Qf0NfU6mOQaAudkEALw_wcB

Collective work article (Cooperação Internacional para Efeitos de Recuperação de Ativos)

Authors: Vânia Costa Ramos & Diogo Pereira Coelho Volume, Issue and Pages: pp. 227-276 Publisher: Almedina

Conferences and seminars

Conference: Legal Experts Advisory Panel (LEAP) Annual Conference 2025

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Milan

Fair Trials

Conference: Legal Experts Advisory Panel (LEAP) Annual Conference 2024

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Brussels

Fair Trials

Conference: Lisbon Blockchain Conference

Lisbon

Participation as a speaker

Nova Blockchain Club of the Nova School of Business and Economics of NOVA University Lisbon

Conference: NFT's e Tokenização: Da Regulação ao Ecossistema em Portugal

Lisbon

Participation as a an organizer and speaker

Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (AAFDL), Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão, & Advogados, OffChain Portugal & DPC Legal

Ceremony: Cerimónia de entrega de prémios da 7.ª edição do Prémio APAV para Investigação 2021

Porto

Participation as a an author and speaker

Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima (APAV)

Ceremony: Cerimónia de apresentação da obra coletiva "Cooperação Internacional para Efeitos de Recuperação de Ativos"

Porto

Attendance as an author at the presentation ceremony of the collective work M.R. Desterro Ferreira, E.L. Lopes Cardoso & J. Conde Correia, Cooperação Internacional para Efeitos de Recuperação de Ativo

Almedina & Court of Appeal of Porto (Tribunal da Relação do Porto)

Webinar: Contencioso da Proteção de Dados

Lisbon

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

Conference: O Encarregado de Protecção de Dados

Lisbon

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

Conference: I Conferência Internacional de Direito da Protecção de Dados

Lisbon

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

Conference: I Jornadas do Direito da Protecção de Dados – A lei de execução do RGPD

Lisbon

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP)

Certifications

Specialization (Integrated Online Course Program): Regulatory Compliance

University of Pennsylvania (Coursera), 10/2022

Composed of:

  1. Online course in What is Compliance?;
  2. Online course in Effective Compliance Programs;
  3. Online course in Privacy Law and Data Protection;
  4. Online course in What is Corruption: Anti-Corruption and Compliance.
Mode of learning: Online

AI for Business

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Coursera), 10/2022

Composed of:

  1. Online course in AI Fundamentals for Non-Data Scientists;
  2. Online course in AI Applications in Marketing and Finance;
  3. Online course in AI Applications in People Management;
  4. Online course in AI Strategy and Governance.
Mode of learning: Online

Data Protection and Privacy Rights

Council of Europe, 12/2020
Mode of learning: Online

Personal Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence – Challenges and Remedies

Academy of European Law ERA, 04/2020
Mode of learning: Online

Blockchain and Data Protection: How to Implement a GDPR-compliant Blockchain

Academy of European Law ERA, 04/2020
Mode of learning: Online

Curso online em Cloud Computing: The Data Collector’s Responsibilities

Academy of European Law ERA, 04/2020
Mode of learning: Online

Cloud Computing: the Data Controller’s Responsibilities – Data Processing by Third Parties

Academy of European Law ERA, 04/2020
Mode of learning: Online

Blockchain and Data Protection: How to Implement a GDPR-compliant Blockchain

Academy of European Law ERA, 04/2020
Mode of learning: Online

Projects

Conference: NFT's e Tokenização: Da Regulação ao Ecossistema em Portugal (NFTs and Tokenization: From regulation to the ecosystem in Portugal)

Conference on "NFTs and Tokenization: From regulation to the ecosystem in Portugal" on November 11, 2023 at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, organized by AAFDL - Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa in collaboration with Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão, OffChain Global and me (DPC - Legal).

Honours and awards

Honorable mention

07/12/2021
APAV - Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima

Honorable Mention in the 7th edition of the APAV Award for Research 2021, concerning the research work entitled "Judiciary Cooperation for the purpose of defending the property interests of the victim", written in co-authorship with Vânia Costa Ramos.

Skills

  • Tech & Digital Law
  • Web3
  • Web4
  • FinTech
  • DeFi
  • DLT
  • Blockchain
  • Tokenization
  • Crypto-Assets
  • CBDC
  • Metaverse
  • AI
  • Data
  • Robotics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cybercrime
  • Asset Recovery
  • Cryptotaxation
  • Quantum Technology
  • Neurotechnology
  • Smart City
  • Internet of Things

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Hobbies and interests

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In his free time he appreciates his early morning workout routine, and also traveling, visiting ancient sites, enjoying nature, as well as reading about psychology, philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, mythology, theology, astronomy, physics, biology, sociology, economics, & politics.