Name: Isabel O’Neill de Mascarenhas Gaivão Nacionality: Portuguese Born: Lisbon, Portugal 19/06/1963 Research areas: Genotoxicity/antigenotoxicity; nutrigenomics; comet assay; mechanistic studies of DNA damage and repair; genome stability; studies in somatic and germ cells. Scientific society’s membership: Committee member of the Spanish Society of Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics (SEMA) Employment: 1999 – until now; Professor at Genetics and Biotechnology Department, University os Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal PhD in Genetics – University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal, July 1999