Silvina
Lewis

Biography

Graduated in Biological Sciences in 1993 from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She completed her postgraduate studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, obtaining the title of Master of Science in Plant Breeding for Agricultural Development, in 1995.

Her professional career at INTA began in 1993 as a CONICET Scholar and subsequently obtained an INTA Scholarship. Since 2001 she has been a plant researcher within the wheat and related species group of the Institute of Biological Resources (IRB), specializing in germplasm evaluation and development. Since 2007, she was the interim Coordinator of the Genetic Resources Conservation and Use Area, and from 2011 to 2015 she was Coordinator of the Germplasm Domestication, Evaluation and Development Area. Between 2015 and 2016 she held the interim function of the Directorate and since October 2016 she has served as the appointed Director of the IRB.

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