Mariana Meerhoff
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Mariana Meerhoff | |
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| Born | 17 June 1975 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Alma mater | Aarhus University |
| Occupation(s) | Researcher, professor, biologist |
| Years active | 1994 – present |
| Awards | L'Oréal-UNESCO Award (2011) |
Mariana Meerhoff (born 17 June 1975) is a Uruguayan researcher and Full Professor at the University Center of the Eastern Region of the University of the Republic (UdelaR). She is also honorary associate researcher at Aarhus University and a member of the Advisory Board of the South American Institute for Research and Education in the Sustainability and Resilience Sciences (SARAS). Likewise, she works as a Level 5 Full Professor of the Basic Sciences Development Program (PEDECIBA), and is a Level 3 Researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of the National Research and Innovation Agency (SNI, ANII) of Uruguay. She currently has more than 90 publications of scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 2011 she was recognized with the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for the project "Ecosystem functioning in water bodies: effects of the degree of impact and the opening of the ecosystem".[1] In 2015 she received the International Recognition of Professional Excellence in Limnology (IRPE) and the national Roberto Caldeyro Barcia-PEDECIBA Award.[2][3][4]
At age 18 (in 1994), Mariana Meerhoff entered the University of the Republic's Faculty of Sciences for a Bachelor of Biological Sciences program, which she completed in 1998 with a focus in ecology. Between 1999 and 2001, she completed a master's degree in Biological Sciences (PEDECIBA, UdelaR) tutored by Dr. Néstor Mazzeo and Dr. Brian Moss, with a thesis entitled Effect of the presence of hydrophytes on the structure of the zooplankton and fish communities in a shallow hyper-utrophic lake. In 2003 she began her PhD in Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark, directed by Dr. Erik Jeppesen and Dr. Tom V. Madsen, which ended in 2006. Her thesis was entitled The structuring role of macrophytes on trophic dynamics of shallow lakes under a climate warming scenario. In 2010 she obtained her post-doctorate in cooperation between Uruguay and Denmark. In that same year, she became associate professor at the University Center of the Eastern Region, entering the Total Dedication Regime.
