Luís Miguel Clemente Casinhas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and an Integrated Researcher at BRU-IUL. He holds a BSc in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics and completed his MSc and PhD in Economics at ISCTE-IUL as a recipient of a competitive doctoral fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He began his academic career in 2019 at ISCTE-IUL, teaching in both the Departments of Economics and Political Economy. He has also taught at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, and was part of the teaching team that developed the Executive Education Short Program in Financial Markets at AESE Business School. His research focuses on inequality, housing markets, and public policy evaluation, combining large-scale microdata with advanced econometric and machine learning methods. He has published in leading Q1 international journals, including Review of Income and Wealth, Social Indicators Research, British Journal of Sociology, and Real Estate Economics, and is a member of the World Elite Database (WED). His research has contributed to national public debate, received coverage in major Portuguese and international media outlets, and informed expert opinions submitted to the Portuguese Parliament.