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).

In 2023-2024, she carried out a postdoctoral research at the University of Neuchâtel thanks to a Swiss Government Excellence Grant.

She is also an integrated researcher at CIES-Iscte and an associated researcher at the Emigration Observatory (OEm), Lisbon. She co-coordinates the Meetings on Migratory Experiences, a joint initiative of CIES-Iscte and CRIA, and co-organised several national and international meetings and conferences.

Since 2019, she is a member of IMISCOE (SC Families, Welfare, Care and the Life Course), of ESA (European Sociological Association), APS (Portuguese Sociological Association) and APA (Portuguese Anthropological Association) and, since 2023, also of the COST Action Transnatinal Families Dynamics in Europe. 

Previously, from 2002 to 2017, she has worked for various national and international NGOs and platforms in the fields of human rights, in particular women's rights, and development.