Alexandre Quintanilha

Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha, GOSE was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) Portuguese East Africa on August 9, 1945, at the time a Portuguese colony. His father was a Portuguese from the Azores islands, one of the first persons to study fungi, and worked in Berlin and Paris. His mother was a German. They moved to Mozambique in the 1940s, where Alexandre was born.

tudies

Quintanilha completed his secondary school studies in Lourenço Marques, then went to South Africa to study at university level. B.Sc. (Hons) in theoretical physics in 1967 (University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg), he completed his Ph.D. in solid state physics in 1972 (University of Paris).

Work

He worked many years at the University of California, Berkeley, in the USA, before returning to Portugal, becoming director of the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology) of the University of Porto.

External links

* [http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0&section=6&year=2003&newsrelease=68 European Science Foundation appoints Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha as new chairman of the Standing Committee for Life and Environmental Sciences]
* [http://130.251.107.180/biotethics/member_quintanilha.html Alexandre Quintanilha on BioTEthics]
* [http://www.nationalgeographic.pt/revista/0901/Ficheiros_Secretos/default.asp Alexandre Quintanilha on National Geographic Portugal] (Portuguese)