Zsófia Lázár is a senior lecturer at the Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest. Her research focuses on finding non-invasive biomarkers and identifying important clinical phenotypes of respiratory diseases with high societal burden including bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and orphan diseases such as pulmonary hypertension with the aim to introduce novel therapeutic interventions and develop personalized therapy. She completed post-graduate research training in the Netherlands and Germany. She is the author of more than 70 ISI papers, which received more than 1,300 citations providing a Hirsh index of 22. She has been mentoring the research projects of graduate and PhD students for numerous years. She holds Hungarian and international board certifications in respiratory medicine issued by the European Respiratory Society and has been working as a clinician at the Department. She has also been active in teaching of graduate students in Hungarian, English and German. She has been awarded various grants and awards, such as the Huygens Scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Education (2006–2008), the Long-term Research Fellowship by the European Respiratory Society (2012–2013), the János Bolyai Post-doctoral Research Grant (2016–2020), the International Medis Awards for Medical Research (2018), the Bolyai + Scholarship for Young Researchers and Lecturers in Higher Education (2018–2019 and 2019–2020), and MTA’s grant for researchers raising children (2023). She is married with two children (Domonkos, 2019 and Dénes, 2022).