Sofia Augusto received a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Lisbon in 2012. She currently works as an Administrative Officer and Project Manager for the Portuguese Ecological Society (SPECO) and for the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). She is also a Researcher at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Environment Change (cE3c) and at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto.

Her research focuses on understanding the relationships between humans and the environment from a human health standpoint. For many years, she has been involved in studying the impact of anthropogenic activity on air quality. In recent years, she has been engaged in understanding how human health is affected not only by anthropogenic activities but also by natural events (e.g., forest fires). More recently, she has started to include climate change in the equation of her interests.

Expertise: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Environmental Health, Environmental Biomonitors, Human Health Risk Assessment, Pollution (air, water, soil)