Ana Assuncao

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Current position

• 2015-present: Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), University of Copenhagen, and Affiliated Researcher at Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO), University of Porto.

 

Other activities

• Participant in the Focus Group “Improving micronutrient uptake and use efficiency” in the context of the CropBooster-P project - EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation grant agreement 817690.
• Member of the COST action 19116 “Trace Metal Metabolism in Plants – PLANTMETALS”. Management committee member and deputy leader of Workgroup 1 “Metal transport - Pathways of trace metals from the soil and through the plant”. https://plantmetals.eu/plantmetals-home.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qn33SQGL44&t=102s

 

Teaching 

• Advanced Plant Biology / Videregående Plantebiologi (BSc course - blok 3)
• Plant Ecophysiology in a changing climate (MSc course - blok 3)

 

Education

• 2003: PhD in Plant physiology and genetics/ Insight into the molecular and genetic basis of zinc hyperaccumulation trait in the extremophile species Noccaea caerulescens. Supervisor: Prof. Henk Schat. Department of Ecology and Ecotoxicology of Plants, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 1997: MSc. in Agricultural Engineering, Plant Sciences, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.

 

Academic awards

• 2015: DFF/ The Danish Council for Independent Research - YDUN program
• 2014: FCT/Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - IF grant
• 2005: NWO/ The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research – Vernieuwingsimpuls/ Innovation Research Incentives – VENI scheme
• 1998: FCT/Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - PhD scholarship
• 1997: FCT/Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - Junior research scholarship
• 1997: Award Eng. António de Almeida