Vitor Sérgio Ferreira has a Ph.D. in Sociology, specialising in Sociology of Culture, Communication and Education, from Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2006). It was also at Iscte that he completed his Degree in Sociology (1995), and did his post-graduation in Communication, Culture and New Technologies (1998).

He is currently Principal Researcher and Professor at the Post-Graduation in Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences - University of Lisbon. He coordinates the research group LIFE - Life courses, inequality, and solidarity: practices and policies, he is vice-coordinator of the Portuguese Youth Observatory and he is a member of the coordinating committee of the Interuniversity PhD Programme in Sociology: knowledge for open and inclusive societies (OpenSoc).

He has collaborated with several postgraduate programmes abroad, with an emphasis on Brazil, supervising visiting researchers in doctoral and post-doctoral internships at ICS-ULisboa, supported by several scientific funding agencies and programmes (Erasmus Programme, CAPES, CNPQ or FAPESP). He is a collaborating professor in the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Studies of the Human Condition, at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. He was a visiting professor at the doctoral programme Doing Transitions: The formation of transitions over the life course, at Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt) and Eberhard Karls Universität (Tübingen) in Germany (2022); at the Faculty of Public Health at the University of São Paulo (2013), and Invited Lecturer at Iscte-IUL, in the Master's Degrees in Communication, Culture and Information Technology (UC Deepening Issues of Communication and Culture and UC Art and Contemporary Culture, between 2006 and 2011), and in Education & Society (UC Childhood and Youth: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, between 2016 and 2019).

Throughout her professional career, he has developed research in the areas of Sociology of Youth (subjectivities, youth cultures and lifestyles; transitions to adulthood and life paths; training, employability and work; generations and generationalism), Sociology of the Body (attitudes towards the body; body maintenance and modification practices; somatic cultures) and Sociology of Culture (cultural mediators; artists and creators; creativity; cultural practices).

Recently he has been interested in the way generational categories have gained relevance as symbolic devices of identification and enunciation of social inequalities in conjunctures of "crisis" (austerity, pandemic, war...); by the conditions of emergence of "new dream jobs" among the aspirational configurations and professional insertion of the younger generations; and by the new and old forms of action and political production of/for and with young people.