Mónica Bettencourt-Dias is a biochemist and cellular biologist, who is the head of the Cell Cycle Regulation Research Group.

Her research involves cell cycle regulation, for which she has been recognized as the recipient of the Pfizer Award for Basic Research, the Keith Porter Prizer from the American Society for Cell Biology and the Eppendorf Young European Investigator Award.

She was also selected as a 2009 European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator Fellow and inducted as a member of the EMBO in 2015.

Mónica Bettencourt-Dias is the Director of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência since February 2018.

PRIZES AND AWARDS AS PI:
2015-EMBO membership
2012-Keith Porter Fellowship (Philadelphia
Foundation and American Society for Cell Biology)
2009-EMBO Young Investigator Programme
2007-Eppendorf European Young Investigator
2007 & 2012-Pfizer Award for Basic research
2007-Seeds of Science Award- Science website
2007-Prémio Metro - Elected by the lay public