Carmen Lelia Cristóbal is an Argentine professor of botany at the National University of the Northeast (UNNE) in Corrientes.
[1] In 1959, she earned her doctorate degree in botany at the National University of Tucumán.
Cristóbal was a docent at Tucumán in 1962 at the same time that she began work as a CONICET researcher.
In 1964 she became a professor of Botany I at Corrientes, where she also lectured as part of the Faculty of Exact Sciences.
Cristóbal and her husband, Antonio Krapovickas, established UNNE's Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, or Ibone, at over 250,000 specimens.