Pedro holds a PhD by the University of Nottingham, through which he developed extensive research and applied work in rail human factors and resilience, in particular applied to the area of railway engineering. He has over 20 years of experience as a researcher and a consultant in the railway, aviation, maritime and the oil & gas sectors, among others. Since 2015, he is a researcher (Joint Professor) at CENTEC (IST, University of Lisbon), and since 2019 he is a consultant and chief scientist at Novellus Solutions, in the UK.