Campos has a PhD in Digital Media from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in partnership with The University of Texas at Austin, where she was also a Fulbright visiting researcher. Additionally, she has a master's degree in journalism and a postgraduate degree in human rights.

Her main areas of research are media literacy and journalism. She co-coordinated the “Influencers Trust Label” project, funded by the European Commission, and has collaborated on several international projects, such as “OMediaLiteracy”, funded by Gulbenkian and “European Cooperation Project on disinformation and fact-checking training”, funded by Erasmus +. Campos was a member of the Media Literacy Task Force of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe and has consulted on research and evaluation projects for entities such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She is also the author of several academic publications indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus and the literary book “Se eu morrer, publica isto”.

Before her academic career, she worked for over 15 years as a journalist, having mainly reported on human rights at an international level. During that period, she won a reportage prize from the United Nations National Committee for the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.