Sandra Marques Pereira holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE (2010). Her dissertation, titled House and Social Change: An Interpretation of Transformations in Portuguese Society through the Home, received two awards for best doctoral thesis in the field. Her research areas include housing policies, ways of inhabiting, housing models and real estate markets, and residential trajectories. She is an Assistant Researcher at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, at DINÂMIA'CET. She taught the course Society and Architecture in the Integrated Master’s in Architecture (2012–2020) and, since 2022, has been teaching the course Housing and Ways of Inhabiting in the Master’s in Urban Studies (UN/FCSH and ISCTE-IUL). Between 2015 and 2025 she was co-coordinator of the Southern European Housing Working Group of the European Network for Housing Research, in whose conferences she regularly participates. She coordinates LxHabidata. She has been a team member of several FCT-funded projects and Principal Investigator of one project (SIZA_3CITY). She has several national and international publications and regularly participates in the public debate on housing.