Eva-Mari Aro#
| Membership Number: | 5838 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.utu.fi/en/people/eva-mari-aro |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2922-1435 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Research Director, Professor Emerita, Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Finland
- 1998 - 2019 Professor of Physiological Botany, University of Turku
- 2014 - 2018 and 1998 - 2008 Academy Professor (awarded by the Academy of Finland, on leave from the professorship)
- 1998 (3 months) The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 1987 - 1997 Associate Professor in Physiological Botany, University of Turku
- 1992 (4 months) Australian National University, Research School of Biological Sciences, Canberra
- 1981 - 1989 Junior and Senior Researcher of the Academy of Finland (partially on leave from Associate Professorship)
- 1989 - 1990 University of Stockholm, Department of Biochemistry, Stockholm
- 1982 - 1983 CEN Cadarache, Department de Biologie, Service de Radio-Agronomie, Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance
- 1978 - 1979 University of California, Berkeley (Asla Fulbright Scholarship)
Fields of Scholarship
- Cyanobacteria biotechnology
- Photosynthesis
- Regulation of photosynthesis
- Plant stress and retrograde signalling
- Systems biology of plants and cyanobacteria
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland, awarded by the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö
- 2008 Foreign member of National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- 2018 Honorary Award and Honorary Medal 2018, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2017 Academician of Science, Academy of Finland
- 1998 - 2008 and 2014 - 2018 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland
- 2016 Edward Tolbert Memorial Lecture, Michigan State University, USA
- 2016 Arnon lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 2014 Honorary Doctor of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Professor of the Year 2013 awarded by the Finnish Professor Union
- 2013 SPPS Award for lifelong research achievements (Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society)
- 2012 Honorary doctor of Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sweden
- 2012 Invited member of the Finnish Technical Sciences Academy
- 2009 Finnish Cultural Foundation prize
- 2006 Honorary professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Botany
- 2005 Knight First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
- 2002 Invited member to Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- Awards and grants for several EU and Nordic research networks (as a coordinator and a partner)
