Sophie Marques is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Minho, Portugal, and an Exceptional Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests lie broadly in algebra, including algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, category theory, group theory, and near-linear algebra. She has held previous academic positions at Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town, and the Courant Institute at New York University, and has published on a range of topics in algebra and number theory.