Marcia Margis-Pinheiro

Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Marcia is a member of the Committee for Advisory in Genetics (CA-GE) of the CNPq (2011-2014). Board Member of the Brazilian Society of Genetics (SBG), from 2010 to 2018), and president of the SBG (2016-2018). Member of CTNBio from March 2012 to February 2014. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Genetics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000-2001) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011-2015). Editor-in-Chief of the Genetics and Molecular Biology. Associate editor of the Environmental and Experimental Botany. President of the International Genetics Federation (September 2018-July 2023).

Marcia’s research is in plant genetics with a focus on plant defense, abiotic stress responses, antioxidant metabolism, and plant functional genomics. Supervised 12 post-Doc, 57 graduate students (27 Ph.D. and 30 MSc), and several undergraduate students.