Liliana Azevedo holds a PhD in Sociology (Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal). Her thesis is focused on the return migration of Portuguese migrant couples to Switzerland at the time of retirement. She approached the issue of return and non-return migration from a threefold perspective of gender, life course and transnationality.

From 2018 to 2022, she was awarded a PhD scholarship by the FCT, the Portuguese national agency for scientific research (Ref: SFRH/BD/128722/2017). During this period, she was also an associate doctoral student of nccr - on the move (National Centre of Competence in Research -The Migration-Mobility Nexus).

Since september 2023, she is carrying out a postdoctoral research at the University of Neuchâtel thanks to a Swiss Government Excellence Grant.

She is also a researcher at CIES-Iscte and an associated researcher at the Emigration Observatory (OEm), Lisbon. She is member of the coordination of the Meetings on Migratory Experiences, a joint initiative of CIES-Iscte and CRIA.