| Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral | |
| Birth Place: | Capivari, Brasil |
| Fields: | Botany Biology, Curatorship |
| Author Abbrev Bot: | M.C.E.Amaral |
| Workplaces: | Universidad Estatal de Campinas |
| Alma Mater: | Universidad de São Paulo (BSc, MSc) Universität Hamburg (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | A divisão genérica da família Ochnaceae DC., com especial atenção à subfamília Sauvagesioideae Lindl. (2010) (A generic division of the Ochnaceae DC family, with special attention to the Sauvagesioideae Lindl subfamília. (2010)) |
| Thesis Year: | 2010 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Klaus Kubitzki (1933) |
| Known For: | naming, in the 21st century, new genera, species, and subspecies for science[1] |
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Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral (born 1959) is a Brazilian botanist, biologist, curator, and academic.,[2] [3] who has worked, since 2011, on teaching and research in the Department of Biology, Universidad Estatal de Campinas.
In 1980, she obtained a Bachelor of Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo, and in 1985, a Master in Biological Sciences (Botany) from the same institution, defending the thesis supervised by Dr. Antonio Salatino, Epicuticular wax of aquatic plants. In 1990, she obtained a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Universität Hamburg, Germany.[4]
Since 1993 she has been a professor at the Universidad Estatal de Campinas. She works in botany, with an emphasis on seed plant taxonomy, researching the following topics: phylogenetic systematics, macromolecular systematics, interactive multiple access keys, Ochnaceae, Commelinaceae, Orchidaceae, aquatic plants, and the flora of São Paulo.
In 2012, she worked on post-doctorate research at the Universität Zürich, with a grant from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP, Brazil.[5]
Some of her most cited publications[6] are: