Mónica Moura has been lecturing and doing research in the University of the Azores since 1991. She has worked in the field of propagation of endemic plants by in vitro culture and seed, and in 2006 she obtained her PhD in Plant Physiology. More recently, she has started taking interest in molecular genetics, and is currently developing research in the areas of phylogenetics and population genetics of Azorean endemic taxa. She has lectured various disciplines in MSc courses (“Genetics and Reproduction”, “Plant Biotechnology”, “Systematic Botany”, “Biological Diversity”) and in BSc courses (“Genetics and Evolution”, “Conservation Biology”, among others). She has also supervised MSc students, as well as PhD students and post-doctoral projects.