She is in innate research, formed as an engineer. Thais is mentor on triple Sustainable and Social Innovators Projects on European Acceleration programs, like Climate KIC, UNDP, EIC Accelerator, Founder Institute, Star Startup, and Youth Business International. She is the founder of INNOBOUND, a private innovation agency created to give life triple impact solutions that help conquer the European Green Deal objectives. Also, she is a co-founder partner of TRL +, an outsourcing transfer unit where grassroots companies' technology based on TRL generate in research centers. Additionally, she is part of the board director of Asociación Nosotras, a chain of favor movement to help women entrepreneurs to tackle the glass ceiling issues.

She is part of the 700 Business Innovation Coaches for the EIC Accelerator of the European Commission and the Guide of the 200 Reference Women of Innovative Entrepreneurship in Spain And part of 20 Entrepreneurs that enrich the ecosystem.

She is President of the Cabina di Regia Benessere Italia at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and has been advisor of the President of the Council of Ministers on statistical issues in addition to other positions in the Italian Council of Ministers. She is editor of the journals Social Indicators Research (Springer) and Encyclopaedia of Research on Quality of Life and Well-being (Springer). Filomena is president and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality of Life Studies (AIQUAV) and the scientific Director and founder of the Statistical Laboratory for Research in Social Sciences and Economics (StaRSE) and member of national and international ad hoc committees on quality of life and well-being. She has also acted as an expert committee at the European Commission for numerous projects.

Filomena has been invited to speak at more than 100 universities and institutions, both public and private, and has won numerous awards and honours for her research work.