President of the General Assembly of Centro Internacional de Matemática (CIM) (2016-2019).
Delegate to the International Mathematical Union (IMU) General Assembly, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, August 10-11, 2014.
Delegate of the Institutional Members of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Term of office: 2014-2017.
President of the Executive Board of Centro Internacional de Matemática (CIM) (2011-2015).
Vice-director of LIAAD-INESC Porto LA (2010-2012).
Executive Coordinator of the Scientific Board of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal (2009-2010).
Director of the Mathematics Department of the University of Minho, Portugal (2008-2009).
President of the Assembly of the Mathematics Department,University of Minho, Portugal (2008-2009).
Member of the elected committee to propose the new regulations of the School of Science, the University of Minho, Portugal (2008-2009).
Member of the elected Scientic Council Committee of the Pure Mathematics Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (2003-2005).
Member of the Installing Committee of the International Center for Mathematics (CIM), Portugal (1995-1996 and 2000-2002).
Member of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (1992).
Review Committees
PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship review committee and Research Proposal reviewer in Mathematical Sciences at Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
PhD, MSc and Undergraduate Program Committees
Director of the MSc in Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (2010-2015).
Vice-director of the scientific committee of the doctoral program in Mathematics and Applications of Universities of Minho and Aveiro, Portugal (2008-2009).
Member of the committee to study the possible implementation of a third cycle in Sciences at Minho School of Sciences, Portugal (2008).
Chair of the Pedagogical Committee of the undergraduate studies in Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (2000-2001).
Co-Chair for the undergraduate studies in Mathematics, representing the Applied Mathematics Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (1996, 1998 and 2000-2001).
Director the MSc in Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (1996).
Member of a faculty search committee for 2 positions of Full Professor in Portugal. Member of 2 faculty search committee for 1 position of Associate Professor in Portugal. Member of a faculty search committee for 1 position for short-term research inserted in the national research program Ciência 2008, Portugal.
Special Visiting Researcher (Pesquisador Visitante Especial) of the Brazilian program Science Without Borders (Ciência Sem Fronteiras), CNPq, at IMPA, Brasil (2015-Present).
- Member of the Directing Committee of the program Probabilistic Methods in Non-Hyperbolic Dynamics (PRODYN), European Science Foundation (ESF) (1999-2001).
- Co-coordinator of the Luso-Spanish Integrated Action E-35/07, corresponding to the Research Project Game Theory and Applications in Economics, financed by the Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas. Universities involved: University of Porto and University of Santiago de Compostela (2007-2008).
Project Leader of the Portuguese team in the project "Dynamical Systems" of Program USP/UP - a partnership program between University of São
Paulo, Brasil, and University of Porto, Portugal. (2011-2015).
Project Leader of FCT Grants: