I am currently a postdoc scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Before I came here, I studied economics at the Technical University of Lisbon and at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. After my graduation I worked as a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Lisbon and as a researcher at the Research Center for Social Intervention (CESIS) in Lisbon. In 2002 I moved to the Netherlands and joined Scholar at the University of Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute, where I received my PhD in 2006.
My research interests lie in the fields of experimental, behavior, organizational and labor economics. Currently, I am working on the mechanisms underlying cooperation, reciprocity, and fairness behavior on economic decisions and on the interplay between formal and informal incentives on effort and motivation in organizations. These projects build on laboratory and field experiments.