I am a graduate from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) where I trained in Applied Mathematics, with a specialisation in Probability and Statistics. After my graduation, I worked for five years at the Southern Portuguese Cancer Registry, where I was responsible for the data management and analysis of the cancer registration data. Since joining the school, I am based at the Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Department (Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health), where I completed my part-time staff PhD on the estimation of population-based cancer survival at small area, supervised by Professor Bernard Rachet and Professor James Carpenter.