Liliana Azevedo worked for 15 years in women's rights and development cooperation in the NGO sector. Since october 2017, she's sociology PhD student at ISCTE-IUL and researcher at CIES-IUL. She has a PhD fellowship (Reference SFRH/BD/128722/2017) from the portuguese national fund for scientific research. Her research focuses Portuguese migrants in Switzerland at retirement age, with a gender and a transnational perspectives. Her thesis is directed by Prof. Rui Pena Pires (CIES/ ISCTE-IUL) and co-directed by Prof. Karin Wall (ICS-UL) and Prof. Gianni D'Amato (Swiss Migration Forum/ UNINE). She's Associated Doctoral Student to the nccr - on the move (National Center of Competence in Research –The Migration-Mobility Nexus), in Switzerland. She's also Associated Researcher to the Emigration Observatory (OEm). She has been a Board member and Chairperson of the General Assembly of the Sociology Students Association of ISCTE-IUL (NESISCTE).