Biography

Argentine botanist. Born in Buenos Aires, Alicia Sérsic studied at the University of Córdoba from which she received her bachelor's degree in natural sciences in 1983. After several years spent as an assistant teacher in the field of vascular plants and head of practical work in the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences at the same university, she began studying for a doctorate in 1989. Her thesis focused on the interactions between plants and their pollinators, studying these dynamics in 48 native Calceolaria species of Argentina and Chile. Having received her PhD in 1994 she continued her research which has remained in the field of pollination, especially that of unusual floral rewards such as floral oils and pollenization by certain bee species.

From 1999 Sérsic has been as an adjunct researcher for CONICET (the National Council for Research in Science and Technology) and carried out over thirty research projects, conducting fieldwork in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Venezuela and South Africa. In particular she has spent a lot of time in Patagonia and has always collaborated with fellow Argentine pollination biologist A. A. Cocucci. In 1991 she received a fellowship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to study at the University of Mainz in Germany and has since become a professor of plant systematics at the University of Córdoba. From this position Sérsic has directed postgraduate and undergraduate theses and along with Cocucci has led student groups in pollination ecology and plant evolution.

Sources:
Perfil Dr Alicia N. Sérsic. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
http://patagonia.byu.edu/investigators.aspx?i=Sersic
Online C.V.:
http://www.efn.uncor.edu/departamentos/divbioeco/otras/simbiosis/personal/CVSersic.pdf.