 From the 1980s he took on teaching roles, amongst other places at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Harvard University in the USA, at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses.From 1986 to 1992 he held a professorship in composition at the New Music Institute of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.Nunes was named an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 1986, and in 1991 was appointed Comendador da Ordem de Santiago da Espada by the President of Portugal.