Sofia Santos Costa is currently an Assistant Researcher at the Unit of Medical Microbiology of IHMT-NOVA and member of “THOP – TB, HIV and opportunistic diseases and pathogens” group of the Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) R&D center and of the Associated Laboratory “REAL - Associated Laboratory in Translation and Innovation Towards Global Health”. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, specialization Microbiology in 2013. She holds a MSc degree in Medical Microbiology and Graduation in Applied Chemistry, specialization Biotechnology.

She participates/has participated in several concluded R&D Projects as PI (DREBI - Exploring efflux inhibition to counteract antimicrobial resistance and biofilms in staphylococci, funded by FCT), Co-PI (BIOSAFE - Preventing antimicrobial resistance in the community - the safe use of biocides, funded by FEDER/FCT), or as team member. She is responsible for the Galleria mellonella Research Hub at GHTM/IHMT-NOVA.

She is involved in several syllabus of MSc and PhD courses covering topics that overlap with her research areas. She supervises two PhD students and co-supervises six PhD students. She also supervises three MSc students and co-supervises five MSc students. So far, she has supervised six MSc students and co-supervised, one PhD student, thirteen MSc students, one BSc student and one Erasmus student.

She is a member of the Scientific Council of IHMT-NOVA since July 2020.

To date, she has authored/co-authored 41 international peer-reviewed publications (h-index of 18).