Ricardo Antunes Azevedo (R.A. Azevedo)

Full Professor of Cell Biology Genetics Department Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz University of São Paulo Brazil

Contact:
raa@usp.br e-mail
ricardo.azevedo@pq.cnpq.br e-mail
azevedo221209@gmail.com e-mail

Education and Qualifications:
1979-1983 Degree, Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil.
1984-1988 Master, Plant Genetics, State University of Campinas, Brazil.
1988-1992 Ph.D., Plant Biochemistry, Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

Appointments held:
1996-1997: Visiting Research Fellow, Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
1993-2000: Lecturer: Universidade de São Paulo.
2000-2009: Associate Professor: Universidade de São Paulo.

Present activities:
Senior Editor - Annals of Applied Biology (England, Wiley-Blackwell).
Associate Editor - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (France, Elsevier).
Associate Editor - Food and Energy Security Journal (England, Wiley-Blackwell).
Associate Editor - Environmental and Experimental Botany (France, Elsevier).
Associate Editor - Communications in Biometry and Crop Sciences (Poland).
Associate Editor - IUFS Journal of Biology (Turkey).

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Past Editorial Appointments:
Assistant Editor - Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology (Brazil).
Assistant Editor - Scientia Agricola (Brazil).
Associate Editor - Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants (India).
Field Editor (Agrarian Sciences) - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Brazil).

Research topics:
Amino acids metabolism in cereal crops; oxidative metabolism in heavy metals stressed plants; nitrogen metabolism in plants.

Grants:
Granted Financial Support since 1992: Fapesp (Brazil), CNPq (Brazil), Capes (Brazil), British Council (UK), COFECUB (France)

Students supervised:
Undergraduate: Over 30 scientific initiation students trained
Master of Sciences: 15
PhD: 18
Post-Doctoral Fellows: 14

Acted as a reviewer for 89 distinct Journals from all continents and on over 400 manuscripts.

Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2010)

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- Last update.: September/18/2012