Dr. Marcia Margis-Pinheiro is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She graduated in Biological Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1983), received a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1987), and a Ph.D. in Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes - Université de Strasbourg - France (1993). Dr. Marcia Margis-Pinheiro is a member of the Committee for Advisory in Genetics (CA-GE) of the CNPq (2011–2014). Board Member of the Brazilian Society of Genetics (SBG), from 2010 to 2018, and president of the SBG (2016–2018). She was a Member of CTNBio from March 2012 to February 2014. She is the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Genetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000–2001) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011–2015). She is Editor-in-Chief of the Genetics and Molecular Biology. She is an Associate Editor of the Environmental and Experimental Botany. She is President of the International Genetics Federation (September 2018–July 2023). Dr. Marcia Margis-Pinheiro’s research is in plant genetics with a focus on plant defense, abiotic stress responses, antioxidant metabolism, and plant functional genomics.