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Roberto Salema, biologist, is professor emeritus at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (U.Porto) of whose Department of Botany he was director. He was one of the founders of the Electron Microscopy Center of U.Porto and one of the founders of the Experimental Cytology Center of U.Porto, which resulted in the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC). In these institutions he carried out his internationally renowned scientific research, published in numerous scientific articles.

His research focused on biochemical and molecular aspects of photosynthesis, nitrogen assimilation metabolism, cell differentiation dynamics and plant biotechnology. He was one of the pioneers in the introduction of electron microscopy in the country and in studies of ultrastructural plant cell biology. He is the first author of the books Genome Manipulation (Porto Editora, 2013) and Atlas of Cellular Ultrastructure (Porto Editora, 1996).

He was a founding member of the Portuguese Society of Microscopy in 1966 and is an emeritus member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.