Visitación Conforti

Visitación Teresa Dora Conforti de Marconi (born 1953) is an Argentine biologist, algologist, botanist, taxonomist and ecologist.

[1] She is noted for her numerous taxonomic studies of Euglenophyta, including in polluted rivers in Argentina.

In 1973 she obtained her degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires.

At the same university, in 1983 she defended her doctoral thesis on Morphology, taxonomy and stereo ultrastructure of the euglenophyta of the Buenos Aires area.

She has specialized in the kingdom of the Protists, contributing several scientific works on the subject.