Apresentação Pessoal

Sofia Teives Henriques  holds a PhD in Economic History from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University (2011),  Msc in Energy Economics and Environmental Policies from ISEG (2006); BsC in Economics from ISCTE (2001).  Before joining  University of Porto, she was a  Marie Curie early-researcher grant holder during her PhD studies (2006-2011), a  postdoctoral Carlsberg Foundation Fellow  at the Department of Business Economics at the University of Southern Denmark  (2012-2014), a researcher (2014-2021) at Lund University and a visiting researcher at University of Cambridge (2016), Rachel Carson Center (2017)  at LMU-Munich and  University of Paris-Diderot (2018).

  She is interested in understanding the role of energy transitions and natural resources in the process of long-term economic development but also the possibilities of decoupling future economic growth from resource use and emissions.  Current research interests include the role of deep electrification, climate and urban policies,  the sustainability of energy systems in Portugal, Europe, and the World; the social aspects of energy transition,   green-growth policies, the role of forest and agriculture in both industrialization/environment.


Currently, she participates as a researcher in the international project  “Energy transitions of the electricity system in Spain and Portugal in the second half of the 20^th century”, funded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación and  “Development and Publication of a World Primary-Final-Useful (WPFU) Energy & Exergy Database from 1800 to 2020”, funded by Elsevier. In addition she  is wg4 leader and  member of the core group  of  the EU-Cost Action Potarch Action CA22155 on the past, present and future of non-timber forest products.


As a result of her research, she has published in within Energy and Sustainability (i.e Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Ecological Economics) and  Economic and Business History (ie: The Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Enterprise and Society). 
She teaches Economic History and Energy Economics and Policy and has supervised more than 20  master theses on energy, sustainability, and economic history topics.