Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral

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Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral
ForMemRS
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Capivari, Brasil
Alma mater Universidad de São Paulo (BSc, MSc)
Universität Hamburg (PhD)
Known fornaming, in the 21st century, new genera, species, and subspecies for science [1]
Scientific career
Fields Botany
Biology, Curatorship
Institutions Universidad Estatal de Campinas
Thesis A divisão genérica da família Ochnaceae DC., com especial atenção à subfamília Sauvagesioideae Lindl. (2010) (A generic division of the Ochnaceae DC family, with special attention to the Sauvagesioideae Lindl subfamília. (2010))  (2010)
Doctoral advisor Klaus Kubitzki (1933)
Author abbrev. (botany) M.C.E.Amaral

Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral [note 1] [ citation needed ] (born 1959) is a Brazilian botanist, biologist, curator, and academic., [2] [3] who has worked, since 2011, on teaching and research in the Department of Biology, Universidad Estatal de Campinas. [4]

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Biography

In 1980, she obtained a Bachelor of Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo, and in 1985, a Master in Biological Sciences (Botany) from the same institution, defending the thesis supervised by Dr. Antonio Salatino, Epicuticular wax of aquatic plants. In 1990, she obtained a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Universität Hamburg, Germany. [5]

Since 1993 she has been a professor at the Universidad Estatal de Campinas. She works in botany, with an emphasis on seed plant taxonomy, researching the following topics: phylogenetic systematics, macromolecular systematics, interactive multiple access keys, Ochnaceae, Commelinaceae, Orchidaceae, aquatic plants, and the flora of São Paulo.

In 2012, she worked on post-doctorate research at the Universität Zürich, with a grant from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP, Brazil. [4]

Selected publications

Some of her most cited publications [6] are:

Memberships

Periodical reviewer

Research Projects Supervisor

Notes

  1. ↑ This last name uses the Portuguese name system. The first part of the surname is maternal, Carmo Estanisalu, and the second part is paternal, Amaral, convention means she is indexed under Amaral.

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References

  1. ↑ Científica nombrante de nuevas especies para la ciencia
  2. ↑ "Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral".
  3. ↑ "Copia archivada". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Código de segurança". Buscatextual.cnpq.br. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral - BV FAPESP".
  6. ↑ "Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral". Google Scholar. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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