Sophie Belman is a Schmidt Science Fellow and a Postdoctoral Scientist in the Global Health Resilience group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Barcelona Spain.

Her current research focus is towards understanding the impact of our dynamic global climate in bacterial respiratory disease. She is elucidating climatic and socioeconomic drivers of pneumococcal disease by integrating earth systems information with infectious disease epidemiological and genomic data in Bayesian hierarchical frameworks. She completed her PhD at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where she utilized thousands of Streptococcus pneumoniae genomes together with human mobility and other data types to quantify the extent and mechanisms of pneumococcal spread.