Before joining ISCA he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (2002-2012). He studied philosophy in Barcelona and social anthropology in the UK, completing his PhD on iconoclasm, politics and religion among Baga (Republic of Guinea) at University College London (1999), under the supervision of Philip Burnham and Barrie Sharpe. Between 2000 and 2002, he held the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellowship at Saint Anne’s College (Oxford). In 2009 he published the monograph The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone (EUP for the IAI), which was co-winner of the ‘Amaury Talbot Award’ of the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK and Ireland. In 2010/2011 he was an internal fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale.