Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at The Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at the College of Business.  Also, Sofia is a Visiting Professor at InnoLab, University of Vaasa, Finland and an Extramural Research Fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) in the Netherlands.

Sofia has published over 86 articles in leading journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.  She has published 15 papers in the top-50 Financial Times ranked journals.  Her work has been cited over 7,000 times.  

Sofia was an Elected Representative at Large of the Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management [2021-2024]; and the Chair, Global Scholars Development Committee 2023-2024. She is currently the AIB International Finance Annual Meeting 2025, Accounting and Corporate Governance Track co-chair.  

Sofia is a Co-Editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (2021-), and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management, the British Accounting Review and International Journal of Finance and Economics. She sits on the Editorial Boards of Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal and Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 

Sofia has published 6 academic books, including The Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds (2021), Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights (2019), and The Oxford Handbook of IPOs (2018).