Sérgio Bordalo e Sá holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the Social and Human Sciences Faculty at the Lisbon Nova University (1998), a master’s in Film Studies from the Iowa University (2001) and a PhD in Artistic Studies – Cinema and Audiovisual Studies from the School of Arts and Humanities, Lisbon University (2013). Between April 2014 and May 2015, he was a research fellow in an academic project at CRIA (Centre in Network for Research in Anthropology), related to the study of tourist films. In June 2015, he started working in the research project of INET-md (Institute of Ethnomusicology – centre for studies in Music and Dance), pole of the Faculty of Human Motricity of the Lisbon University, first as a Fellow and, since April 2019, as Assistant Researcher, where he researches the relationship between dance and cinema. He was also Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Design of Leiria Polytechnic Institute (2014) and at the Education School of Setúbal Polytechnic Institute (2018/19). He is a team member of three projects funded by FCT: "TEPe – Technologically Expanded Performance", "SPECULUM – Filming and looking at oneself in the mirror: the self-writing use by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers" and "Ghost Dance: Methodologies for the analysis of corporality in the context of dance performance in Virtual Reality". He is also assistant coordinator of CEAP (Center for Performing Arts Studies), an operational unit of the FMH-UL.