Nuno joined the University of Sussex as a Professor of Law in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool (2012-2016) and Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2006-2012). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University (China) and the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), as well as a guest scholar at the University of Girona (Spain) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden).

Nuno did his undergraduate law studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and University of Bologna (Italy), and is a member of the Portuguese Bar. He worked as a legal consultant at the Legal Affairs and Litigation Department of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), and as a research fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (ZERP) (Germany). He carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Bremen, where he obtained his Dr. jur. title (summa cum laude).

Nuno has been a Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant recipient, leading the project SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum (2016-2020, www.sogica.org), the Sussex lead in the project TRAFIG - Transnational Figurations of Displacement (2019-2022, www.trafig.eu), and the principal investigator in the project NQIfFM - Negotiating Queer Identities Following Forced Migration (2022-2024, https://iranqueerefugee.net/). Nuno is also one of the co-editors of the Queer Judgments Project (https://www.queerjudgments.org/).

Language proficiency: Portuguese as mother tongue; English, French, German and Italian at C2 level; Spanish at working knowledge level.