Executive Director

Invited Full Professor, Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (ITQB NOVA), June 2021

Professor with a PhD (2003) in Molecular and Cellular Biology, ITQB NOVA

PhD in Cell Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL - 1992)

Areas of expertise:

Molecular Plant Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Molecular Plant Biodiversity, Plant Genomics and Enzyme Technology

Other current functions:

Director of the Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory at ITQB NOVA

Professor in the Biotechnology for Sustainability master's degree program and the “Plants for Life” PhD program (ITQB NOVA)

Member of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences (appointed by the Order of Biologists)

Previous positions:

Deputy Director of the Green-IT Research Unit

Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

President of CiB - Biotechnology Information Center

First President of the Order of Biologists

Member of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences (2003-2010)

103 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 30

Two relevant publications:

Trindade, I., Capitão, C., Dalmay, T., February, P., dos Santos, D.M. (2010) miR398 and miR408 are up-regulated in response to water deficit in Medicago truncatula. Plant, 231(3), pp. 705-716 - 259 citations
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-009-1078-0

Santos C, Duarte S, Tedesco S, February P., and Costa RL (2017) Expression profiling of Castanea genes during resistant and susceptible interactions with the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi reveal possible mechanisms of immunity. Front. Plant Sci. 8:515.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00515.