Thais França is currently a visiting assistant professor of the Master in Labour Sciences and Industrial Relations (Iscte-IUL) and an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology Institute of the Lisbon University Institute (Cies-Iscte, Iscte-IUL). Currently she coordinates the project “SAGE19: Scientific and Academic Gender (in) equality during Covid19” funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology on the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on female scholar’s career. She was was granted an EEAgrants for her project 'Mapping out: Portugal on the European anti-immigrant movements map' in partnership with PRIO, Norway. Her research expertise and interests focus on migration, mobilities, gender, social inequalities and post-colonial studies. She earned my PhD degree in Sociology in the Labor Relations, Social Inequalities and Unionism program at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra in 2012. Her research was funded by the FCT and its main objective was to analyse the employment insertion of Brazilian women in Portugal. Since then, the topics of social inequality, immigration and gender have become the tripod of her studies. In 2013, at CIES, ISCTE-IUL, she started her career as an independent researcher under the FCT post-doctoral scheme coordinating the project Scientific Mobility to and from Portugal: Production and Circulation of Knowledge in Highly-Skilled Immigration (2012-2018). The project aimed, on the one hand, to analyse international academic and scientific mobility to Portugal as a qualified immigration modality and, on the other, to reflect on how social and gender inequalities reproduce in this phenomenon. Along these years she also took part in different projects and networks, namely GOVDIV Multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective: EU-Latin America (IRSES, Marie Curie Action, FP7-SP3- PEOPLE); A Global Survey on "Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students (University of Ljubljana); the international research clusters IMISCOE : Education and Social Inequality and RIMAC - Red sobre Internacionalización y Movilidades Académicas y Científicas (RIMAC) /Programa de redes temáticas del CONACYT- México. She was the Co-Chair of the Latin America Studies Association (LASA) Gender Section (2018-2020). Additionally, she was a visiting researcher in many institutions in different countries: Gender and Feminist Department, Berkeley University (USA), Department of Sociology University of Warwick (UK), CONICET (Argentina), boosting her career internationalization. The outputs of her work have been presented in in several academic conferences and published in international journals and book chapters. She organized three edited volumes and numerous scientific meetings. Currenlty, she is a member of the European Commission  expert group on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality in EU R&I (2022-2023)