Sílvia Agostinho Silva is Professor (Professora Catedrática) at the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior. Her main research interests lie in the field of work psychology applied to safety, health and wellbeing at work. Her work has been published in several books and international journals, as for instance "Journal of Occupational Health Psychology", "Risk analysis", "Safety Science", "British Journal of Health Psychology", "Accident analysis and Prevention", "Journal of Organizational Behavior". Between February 2013 and January 2017 she was the Director of the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). She has been a Member of several scientific associations and international networks. Between May 2011 and May 2017 she was in the Executive Committee of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology. She coordinated several research national and international projects and collaborated with several companies aiming workplace safety and health promotion.

In July 2023, she was appointed as coordinator of the Coordinator of the "Committee on the Green Paper on the Future of Safety and Health at Work".

In June 2024 she was appointed to the Executive Committee of EAOHP – European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology as Chair of the Research Forum.