She received her doctorate in Migrations – with a specialty in Social Psychology in 2019 from the University of Lisbon. She has been a Research Visiting Scholar at Intergroup Research Lab at Yale University (2017 and 2019) and at the Social Cognition Lab at UCL University (2018). Currently, she holds a research fellow position at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (UL). She was the coordinator of the research project WHOLS - Whose Lives Should Be Saved? Patients’ Race/Ethnicity and Medical Rationing during the COVID-19 Pandemic (LL20-30). She coordinates the Postgraduate Seminars in Social Psychology at ICS-UL, and co-coordinates the research project LUSO - The past in the present: Social Pychological Underpinnings of Luso-tropicalism in the Legitimation of Social and Racial Inequality (2022.05941.PTDC).

Filipa's current research interests are divided into two streams:

Project Stream 1. The Social Psychology of Colonialism. Focuses on understanding the psychological and ideological consequences of representations of colonialism for contemporary social issues. Specifically, the impact of ideological colonial thinking on contemporary race relations, examining the relationship between lusotropicalism and the legitimization of social and racial inequality in Portuguese society.

Project Stream 2. The Social Psychology of Racial Inequalities in Healthcare. Understanding the context in which racial bias occurs and persists in health care and its implications for clinical and medical rationing decisions.

Keywords: Intergroup Relations; Social and Healthcare Inequalities; Stereotypes; Prejudice and Discrimination; Colonial Ideologies