• 1971-1972 Monitor no IST.

• 1973-I promoted, together with other colleagues, in the framework of Veiga Simão reform, the creation for the Electrotechnical Degree, the courses of Mecânica Quântica e Plasmas, among others.

• 1973-I entered in the Instituto de Física e Matemática by invitation of Prof. António Silveira.

• 1974-Graduation in Engenharia Electrotécnica, weak currents.

• 1975-1978-PHD in Theoretical Physics at Oxford University.

  1986-1990-Director of Futuro, a national magazine for science and technology

  1990-1993 I started, promoted e co-projected, as a member of the board of directors of CFMC, with Arq. Nuno Leónidas, the new building of IFM (Today known as Complexo Interdisciplinar das Universidade de Lisboa),

• 1994-with the extinction of INIC (1992), I returned to I.S.T.

• 2004-President of CFIF

• 2007-Member of the Coordination Council of the Scientific Council of IST

• 2007-Member of the List A, appointed to elaborate the new Statutes for the Technical University of Lisbon UTL (IST is a school of UTL)

I work in the Field of Strong Interactions

Some representative papers

• "Microscopic calculation of the repulsive core in the elastic nucleon-nucleon scattering", Z. Phys. C. 5, 27 (1980)

• "A low lying scalar meson nonet in a unitarized meson model", J.E.F.T. Ribeiro, E. van Beveren, T. A. Rijken, K. Metzeger, C. Dullemond, e G. Rupp, Z. Phys. C 30 (1986).

• "Current-quark model in a 3P0 condensed vacuum ", Phys. Rev. D 42, 1611-

  1624(1990); ibid., "pi, K, rho, phi as qq ̄ bound states of the Salpeter equation in a 3P0 condensed vacuum ", 1625-1634 (1990); ibid.,

• "Generalized resonating-group-method equations in a 3P0$ qq condensed vacuum. The phi$ and rho resonances ", 1635 (1990)

• "K-N S channel I=1, 0 phase shifts as a direct measure of chiral condensation", P. Bicudo, J.E.F.T. Ribeiro and J. Rodrigues, Phys Rev. C 52, 2144 (1995).

• "Vacuum replicas in QCD", J.E.F.T. Ribeiro, Phys Rev D, 65:085026 (2002).

• "Confinement and parity doubling in heavy-light mesons", Yu. S. Kalashnikova, A. Nefediev and J. E. F. T. Ribeiro, Phys.Rev. D 72, 034020 (2005)

• "Chiral symmetry restoration in excited hadrons, quantum fluctuations, and quasiclassics", L. Ya. Glozman, A. V. Nefediev, and J. E. F. T. Ribeiro, Phys. Rev. D 72, 094002 (2005).

• "Microscopic derivation of the pion coupling to heavy-light mesons", J.E.F. T. Ribeiro, A. Nefediev and A. Szczepaniak, Phys. Rev D. 75:036001, (2007).

• "Cold Atoms" to appear in public service review, European Union, issue 15, publisher: PSCA international

• Invited member of various International Advisory Committees of International Conferences in hadronic Physics.