Maria Salomé Soares Pais

Permanent Member

Class
Sciences

Section
5th Section | Biological Sciences

Election

04.11.1999 (Corresponding Member)
24.11.2005 (Permanent Member)

Areas of Interest

Plant Molecular Biology; Plant Biotechnology (Crop improvement - Genetic manipulation); Plant Cell Biology

Hyperlinks
https://Bio_Maria_Salom‚_Soares_Pais.pdf

Profile

Graduate in Biology; Assistant of Plant Biology at the Department of Plant Biology from the Sciences Faculty of Lisbon; PhD in Plant Biology; Post Doc. at INRA Versailles (Morel Laboratory); Habilitation in Plant Biology; Full Professor in Plant Biology. Responsible for Research Programmes n.º 3 e 4 from Centro de Engenharia Biológica; Full Professor at Department of Plant Biology of Sciences Faculty of Lisbon; Professor in charge of Centre of Electron Microscopy – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa; Head of Department of Plant Biology of the Sciences; Coordinator of Centro de Biotecnologia Vegetal; Member of New York Academy of Sciences; Visiting Professor of Universidade Católica Salvador – Brasil; Member of the Executive Board of the Program on Plant Adaptation from the European Science Foundation; Member of the Executive Board of AMICA EEIG; Member of the Inter-ministerial Comission for Permanent Consultancy on Transgenic Organisms; Head of Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of ICAT (Institute for Applied Science and Technology); President of the Executive Board of CIFT (Centre for Research and Training in Tropics); Member of the executive board of the program on Assessment of the Impact of Genetically Modified Plants from European Science Foundation; Full Member of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon; Member of NATO JSTC scientific panel; Member of the Scientific Committee of National Geographic Magazine (Portugal); Member of ABI’s (American Biographical Institute) Research Board of Advisors; Scientific Community Representative in ERA-PG (ERA-Net in PLANT GENOMICS); Head of Plant Systems Biology Laboratory – BioFIG – FCUL; Representative of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon in EASAC (European Academies Sciences Advisory Council); General Secretary of Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Portugal; President of Institut for Higfh Studies of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon; Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Chair Education and Science for development and Human Wellbeing; Representative of ACL in Fórum de Partes Interessadas do Comité Nacional para a Década do Oceano.

She received the following special distinctions: Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques – French Government (1979); Who is whom in the World (1997); Prize of the best Conference in the scientific meeting on Gametic Embryogenesis held in Finland (1998); Outstanding Professional Award – ABI – USA (2001); American Order of Merit (Representing Portugal) – ABI – USA (2009); Woman of the Year (Representing Portugal) – ABI – USA (2009); Prize Corticeira Amorim (Best Science) – (2010); Commendor of the Order of Infante D. Henrique Order (2015); Honorary Member of the Order of Biologists (2016); EuroSciCon Certificate of Recognition of Research paper quality, novelty and significance (2019); Medal of Scientific Merit (2023).