Hugo Peixoto has a degree in Digital Arts and Multimedia and a postgraduate qualification in Motion Graphics from the College of Arts and Design (ESAD). He has been working as a Motion Graphics specialist since 2015 at the innovation centre of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), where he took part in projects such as Festival da Canção, Praça da Alegria, MEO Marés Vivas and Primavera Sound, as well as producing daily and institutional content. Before that, he collaborated with the production company ‘Um Segundo Filmes’.

He is an associate researcher in European projects such as Digital Culture, STEM4KITS and AI4STEM. Since 2008, he has worked as a teacher and trainer at institutions such as FLAG, ESOM and Instituto das Artes e da Imagem. He co-ordinates the Maker Space in the Scholé project, which focuses on creative and technological activities.