Maria Conceição de Brito Caldeira is an Associate professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon. She is also an integrated research member of the Forest Research Centre and TERRA Associate Lab.
She has coordinated disciplines in the area of ecology and forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem function and tree ecophysiology. She is the coordinator of the Forest Ecology Research group of the Forest Research Centre and of the Tree Ecophysiology and Breeding Lab. She has published over 90 scientific papers in ISI journals (6755 citations from Scopus), including in Science, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, and New Phytologist, and coordinated more than 7 research projects. Her research interests focus on the understanding of terrestrial ecosystem functioning and resilience in the context of global changes. She is particularly interested in understanding how trees respond to recurrent droughts mainly when interacting with other biotic or abiotic drivers and in how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning and resilience to climate and land use change.