Marta R. M. Lima

Dr. Lima received her B.Sc. degree in Applied Biology from the University of Minho in 2003 and earned her Ph.D. in 2009 at the same university. In 2010, she completed a Specialization in Epidemiology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto. Dr. Lima held postdoctoral appointments at the Portuguese Catholic University, Baylor College of Medicine, and University of California Davis, before becoming an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire in 2018, where she established the Lima Lab. She moved to Virginia Tech in 2021, where she held a faculty appointment through 2025. Currently, Dr. Lima is expanding her contribution to the academy by founding  Quercus Pathways LLC, where she leverages her research background to provide consulting and professional coaching while remaining open to interdisciplinary research collaborations.

Dr. Lima currently serves as an Officer of section C9 – Crops for Health and Nutrition, in the Crop Science Society of America, and serves as an Associate Editor for the Crop Science section C9 (Crops for Health and Nutrition). She also serves as a Review Editor for the Plant Nutrition section of Frontiers in Plant Science, and the Nutrition and Sustainable Diets section of Frontiers in Nutrition and Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.