Sophia Roosth is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, where her research focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first century life sciences, examining how biology is changing at a moment when researchers build new biological systems in order to investigate how biology works. 

Roosth was the 2016 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the Joy Foundation Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2013 to 2014.