Sofia Morales Esteva

UPRM '26

Sofia Morales Esteva is part of the writing team at the Her Campus UPRM chapter. She is currently a fifth year undergraduate and research student pursuing a degree in Industrial Microbiology, with hopes of going to pharmacy after acquiring her bachelor’s degree in December 2025 and pursuing a career in that industry.

In addition to Her Campus, Sofia is part of the following associations at the biology department: CPM (Circle of Premedical Students), The National Honor Society of Biology (Tribeta), WINS (Women in Natural Sciences), AMSA (American Medical Student Association), FPA (Future Pharmacists Association) and Medlife (UPRM Chapter). She also has done internships and shadowings in different branches of medical specialties like optometry, dentistry, cardiology, neurology, dermatology, pharmacy and many more at hospitals in Puerto Rico (mostly Mayagüez and Ponce) and one summer fully dedicated to that at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School. She has also done research at Project AV (rovers) here in UPRM as a microbiology researcher to explore the possibility of life on Mars. She hopes to accomplish more research during the summer and in the fall semester of 2025 in different areas of biology (mainly focusing in pharmaceutical research).

Outside of academics, Sofia has a love for music and is an avid playlist curator (currently with 130 playlists in her Spotify account and more to come, she makes one for everything). She also loves movies and is a regular at Letterbox. Her Letterbox 4 are Pride and Prejudice (2005), La La Land (2017), Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and 10 things I hate about you (1999). Also, if you couldn’t tell from the bio, Sofia is a certified yapper and loves building connections with friends, family, and new people (don’t let the INFJ MBTI tell you otherwise).

In her everyday life, Sofia loves reading (book reading challenge completed successfully every year), swimming, scroll endlessly on Pinterest, consuming pop culture, watching new films, doing makeup, skincare, going out with her friends, completing bucket list items and overall just having a good time whether in school or outside of it.