Mariana Mota has a PhD in Agricultural Science and Engineering. The domain of specialization of her scientific research is physiology, molecular biology and production systems of horticultural crops, namely fruits and vegetables and mainly include: (i) biochemistry and molecular biology underlying fruit-set, yield and produce quality in fruits and vegetables, (ii) molecular detection of phytopathogens in fruit and vegetable crops and plant pathogen interaction, iii) quality assessment of horticultural products and iv) production systems of fruits and vegetables. In the last years, she devoted a lot of attention also to the application of statistical methods to agriculture and/or food science contexts. She is co-author of 26 papers in peer-reviewed journals listed in ISI database, in topics related with horticultural production and quality. Also, she published 18 papers in Conference Proceedings and presented several communications in Seminars/Conferences. She supervised, alone or in collaboration, more than 80 Master Thesis and has currently 3 PhD students in co-supervision. Reviewer for four peer-reviewed journals listed in the ISI database in different areas related with Horticulture. Scopus Author ID: 16307591600 and ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7732-9072. In parallel with scientific activity, she is enrolled in teaching (Horticultural crops - vegetable crops, fruit tree crops, olive crop;, Plant Biotechnology and Laboratorial Techniques in Biology, Statistics) and engaged in several projects related to urban and social horticulture (projects in schools and urban vegetable gardens).