Sofia Neves has a degree in Psychology (1999) and a PhD on Social Psychology (2005) by the Institute of Education and Psychology of Minho University (Instituto de Educação e Psicologia da Universidade do Minho). She's professor and researcher at ISMAI (Instituto Universitário da Maia) and is also a member of an interdisciplinary center of Gender Studies - Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género (CIEG, ISCSP/ ULisboa). Sofia Neves has a main interest in her research area, which is the Gender Violence.
In the present, she's president of "Associação Plano i", and also integrates work groups about Domestic and Gender Violence in the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género) as well as the Intervention of the Psychologist with LGBT people on the Portuguese Order of Psychologists (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses).
