Maria Àngels Cardona i Florit

[1] She lived during her early childhood in Ciutadella (Menorca) before moving to Barcelona to go to university.

With this thesis, she started a new research line in geobotanics in Catalonia, which drove a significant change in scientific and methodology approaches.

On 1972, she won the Pius Font i Quer Prize of Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

In 1986, she won a full professor position in Vegetable Biology that she held until her death.

[1] She collaborated with different international professors, especially Juliette Contandriopoulos from the University of Marseille, an expert in Cytogenetics.