Pierre Deschamps completed his PhD under the joint supervision of Étienne Wasmer and José de Sousa at Sciences Po''s Economics Department (2013-2018), and was a postdoctoral researcher at LIEPP for the ECHOPPE project. He is currently a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.

His research focuses on discrimination and the links between agglomeration effects and the labor market. He is currently working with Morgane Laouénan, Guillaume Chapelle, Dylan Glover and Xavier Lambin on a LIEPP-supported project studying discrimination on online platforms.