Maria Arménia Carrondo (born 1948) is a Portuguese scientist specialized in protein crystallography.
Maria Arménia Abreu Fonseca Carvalho Teixeira Carrondo was born on 31 July 1948 in Vila Nova de Famalicão in the north of Portugal.
In 1989, she participated in the foundation of the Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology (ITQB), based in Oeiras, as part of the NOVA University, where she became a full professor in 1998.
[1][2][3][4] Carrondo's research work has focused on bioinorganic chemistry and the study of proteins using the X-ray crystallography technique.
[5] She has studied molecules of interest to medicine, namely proteins related to the immune system, and differentiated various structures of metalloproteins and metalloenzymes.