Alicia Juliana Kowaltowski MD, PhD

Alicia Kowaltowski holds an MD (1997) and PhD (1999) from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, having done part of her doctoral work in the University of Maryland in Baltimore, USA. She did her post-doctoral training in the Oregon Graduate Institute, USA, and is currently a full professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of São Paulo, Brazil. In 2006 she was Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She specializes in understanding the relationships between energy metabolism, mitochondrial ion transport and redox state. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed international publications, which have accumulated over 5500 citations, with an h-index of 40. Since 2007, she has been Treasurer of the Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq), Associate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and Member of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine.