Maria Doroteia Campos (MDC) is graduated in Agricultural Engineering (scientific-technological branch) at the University of Évora in 1998, completed her master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Horticulture at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, in 2003, and in 2016 she obtained the PhD in Agricultural Sciences, specialization in Biotechnology, at the University of Évora.

Currently MDC has a fixed-term employment contract with the University of Évora, in the category of Researcher, providing research activities at the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED) of the University of Évora, and is a Researcher Integrated in the Plant Protection group of the aforementioned Institute.

Her professional career is mainly dedicated to research, mainly in the areas of plant biotechnology and plant breeding. In 2017, MDC started research work at the Laboratory of Mycology and Virology (MED/UE), in the area of phytopathology, where she has been participating in several research lines, namely in the development of molecular tools for the diagnosis of pathogens in relevant regional crops. Currently, the research interests of MDC also include the identification of resistance genes of different cultures to different situations of biotic stress.

In the context of research supervision, MDC has been advising post-doctoral, PhD, master's and bachelor’s students, in addition to mentoring students from different study cycles. Her teaching activity started at the University of Évora in the academic year 2019-2021 with collaborations in the Curricular Units of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (Master in Agronomic Engineering), Organic Agriculture (Bachelor in Agronomy) and Plant Biotechnology (Bachelor in Agronomy and Biotechnology).