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, and Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.  She has published 14 papers in the top-50 Financial Times ranked journals.  Her work has been cited over 6,200 times.  

Sofia is an Elected Representative at Large, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management [2021-2024]; and the Chair, Global Scholars Development Committee 2024-2025.

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. 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).