Mariana Pinho - Curriculum Vitae#

Academic Qualifications

• 05.2021 “Agregação” in Molecular Biosciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA), Portugal
  
• 1997>2001 Ph.D. degree in Biology, Awarded by the NOVA, Portugal, after research work at the Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
  
• 1990>1995 Degree in Applied Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, NOVA, Portugal

Positions

• 2013>present Associate Professor, ITQB-NOVA
  
• 2013>2020 Director of the PhD program in Molecular Biosciences, ITQB-NOVA
  
• 2013>2014 Sabbatical, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
  
• 2006>present Principal Investigator, Head of the Laboratory of Bacterial Cell Biology, ITQB-NOVA
  
• 2004>2012 Invited Assistant Professor, Universidade Atlântica

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2020 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  
• 2020 Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
  
• 2018 Pfizer award given by Sociedade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa to the best basic research work in biomedical sciences
  

Selected grants as principal investigator (PI)

• 2018 > 2023 European Research Council Consolidator Grant ERC-2017-CoG-771709
  
• 2013 > 2018 European Research Council Starting Grant ERC-2012-StG-310987
  
• Plus 7 other grants as PI and 8 as co-PI or participating researcher

Other

Has supervised 13 PhD students (6 ongoing), 10 master students (1 ongoing) and 11 Postdoctoral fellows (6 ongoing). Has published 65 papers, 52 during her independent career, several of which in high impact journals (Nature, Nature Microbiology, eLIFE, PNAS, Angew. Chem, Nat Comms, Sci Transl Med) with over 3500 citations. Was invited for 36 oral presentations at international conferences, was elected by peers to chair the Gordon Research Conference on Bacterial Cell Surfaces in 2016 (vice chair in 2014). Was also invited to 25 departmental seminars of which 20 at international universities.