Susana Münch Miranda studied History at the Nova University of Lisbon (BA 1987; MA 1993; PhD 2007) and lectured at the History Department and Nova University (1996-2014). Between 2014 and 2016 she was a senior researcher at Leiden University, where she worked on the project Challenging Monopolis, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period.
Upon her return to Lisbon, Susana lectured at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Management (2016-2018) and worked as a member of the research project Sovereign Debt and Private Credit in Portugal (1668-1797), hosted by CSG/GHES, Lisbon School of Economics and Managemet (2019-2021), before returning to Nova University of Lisbon.