João Alves graduated from the University of Lisbon in 2012 and has since worked at the Portuguese Gendarmerie with their police working dogs, focusing on sports medicine and rehabilitation.

He obtained his PhD in 2021 from the University of Évora, focused on intra-articular management modalities for osteoarthritis.

He is an author and co-author of dozens of scientific papers, mainly on canine sports medicine and rehabilitation.