Filipa Pinho is a sociologist and holds a PhD degree in sociology awarded by Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.

Her research interests have focused mainly on international migration (Portuguese emigration and the return of migrants, Brazilian migration to Portugal, migration policies, refugees) youth and, lately, also housing (she collaborates with the LxHabidata project).

Since the 2019/2020 academic year, she has been a visiting assistant professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP), and is currently a researcher at CIES, Iscte.

She works as an independent researcher/consultant on a variety of projects. Some recent examples: Education & Job Market Research (2024), Aga Khan Foundation; Lisbon Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants 2023-2026 (2024), DDS/CML; Empreender 2020 - Return of a Prepared Generation (2017), AEP Foundation; Integration and political participation of immigrants (2015), European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Support and Opposition to Migration in a Comparative Perspective (2017), various projects at IPPS-Iscte and PPLL, Lda (2017).

Between January 2019 and September 2021, she was a post-doctoral researcher at CES Coimbra, in the project Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities, in which CIES also participated.

She was an invited assistant researcher on the PandPAS and Below 10 projects at CIES_Iscte in 2018. Previously, she was the executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory from its foundation in January 2009 until 2013. She was a project coordinator and researcher at the International Organisation for Migration (in 2004 and 2014).

She also worked for several years in national and international market research companies, as a market researcher.