Sofia Teives Henriques holds a PhD in Economic History from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Msc in Energy Economics and Environmental Policies from ISEG; BsC in Economics from ISCTE. Before joining University of Porto, she was a Marie Curie early-researcher grant holder during her PhD studies, a postdoctoral Carlsberg Foundation Fellow at the Department of Business Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (2012-2014), a researcher (2015-2021) 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 an Assistant Professor at FEP where she teaches Energy Economics and Policy for master students and Economic History for Economics undergrads. She is a member of the organizing committee of the Seminars Programme at FEP and supervises undergrad project work in Economics. 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, crisis, climate and urban policies, on the sustainability of energy systems in Portugal, Europe, and the World; the social aspects of energy transition and green-growth policies. She is a member at the EU-Cost Potarch Action CA22155 on the past, present and future of non-timber forest products and EU-Cost PACT (Port and City territories in Action: a Collaborative Laboratory for inclusive energy transition CA23138)
As a result of her research, she has published in high-impact factor journals within Energy and Sustainability (i.e Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Ecological Economics) and top-field journals within Economic and Business History (ie: The Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Enterprise and Society). She has also supervised several master theses on energy, sustainability, and economic history topics.