Mariana Meerhoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mariana Meerhoff

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1975

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Profession: professor, biologist, researcher

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Mariana Meerhoff (born 17 June 1975) is a Uruguayan researcher and associate professor at the University Center of the Eastern Region of the University of the Republic (UdelaR).
She is also a researcher at Aarhus University and a member of the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors of the South American Institute for Research and Education in the Sustainability and Resilience Sciences (SARAS).
Likewise, she works as a Grade 4 Professor of the Basic Sciences Development Program (PEDECIBA), and is a Level 2 Researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of the National Research and Innovation Agency (SNI, ANII) of Uruguay.
She currently has more than 70 publications of scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.
In 2011 she was recognized with the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for the project "Ecosystem functioning in water bodies: effects of the degree of impact and the opening of the ecosystem".
In 2015 she received the International Recognition of Professional Excellence in Limnology (IRPE) and the national Roberto Caldeyro Barcia-PEDECIBA Award.