Maria Arménia Carrondo is the new President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
April 17, 2015
Maria Arménia Carrondo, is the head of the Macromolecular Crystallography Unit at ITQB-UNL and longtime supporter of iBET, has been appointed new president of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, the Portuguese science funding agency.
A distinguished scientist in the field of protein crystallography with over 150 published articles, Maria Arménia Carrondo is an EMBO member since 2000. She was vice-director of ITQB-UNL (1996-2005) and later vice-rector of NOVA University (2007-2013).
Throughout her career, she has served in numerous scientific committees and evaluation boards. Among other national and international awards, she received the European Medal for Bioinorganic Chemistry in 2004 and the Prémio Câmara Pestana 2008.
More recently, she was one of the twenty women scientists portrayed in the exhibition "Mulheres na Ciência", inaugurated last March at Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in Lisbon.