M. Margarida Oliveira

M. Margarida Oliveira is Biologist, with PhD in Plant Biotechnology and Habilitation in Biology, by the Faculdade de Ciências of Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). After 23 yrs teaching at FCUL(1985-2008), she joined ITQB NOVA as Assoc. Prof. (Jul. 2008) where she became vice-Director in 2011 (till now). She leads the Plant Functional Genomics Lab / Genomics of Plant Stress, focusing mainly on understanding the impact of environmental factors on plant development and quality. She directs the FCT Research Unit: “GREEN-IT Bioresources for Sustainability” (www.itqb.unl.pt/green-it) that gathers plant scientists from five Institutes (ITQB NOVA, iBET, IGC, INIAV and INSA), represents the Portuguese cluster of EPSO (European Plant Science Organization), is President of the General Assemblies of COTArroz (http://www.cotarroz.pt/) and the Portuguese Society of Plant Biology (/ Sociedade Portuguesa de Fisiologia Vegetal, SPFV). She directed the ITQB NOVA MSc course “Biotechnology for Sustainability” since its creation (2016) until Jan 2021, and is member of the Direction of the International PhD program "Plants for Life" (http://www.itqb.unl.pt/education). She (co-)supervised 28 PhD theses (plus 7 ongoing) and has 141 papers indexed in Scopus (5223 citations, h-Index 35). (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0095-1952, CiênciavitaeID: 311E-7431-9BCC)