Sofia Nolasco graduated in Genetics and Microbiology, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) in 1999. From 1999 to 2000, she had a research fellowship at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC). From 2000 to 2005, she was a PhD student at IGC and completed a PhD degree in Molecular Biology in FCUL in 2006. From 2006 to 2009, she was a post-doc at IGC and the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain, and from 2009 to 2010, she was a post-doc at the Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical (IICT). Since 2010, she has been a member of the CIISA, Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa. Since 2015, she has been an Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa.