Márcia Barbosa is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, of the World Academy of Sciences and a full professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. She has experience in Physics, with an emphasis on Condensed Matter Physics, working mainly in water. For the study of water anomalies, she won the Loreal-Unesco Award for Women in Physical Sciences and the Claudia in Science Award, both in 2013. In parallel, she works on gender issues for which she won the American Physical Society’s Nicholson Medal in 2009. For her post-graduate work, she won the Anisio Teixeira da Capes Award in 2016 and for her work in favor of science, in 2018 she received the Medal of Scientific Merit as a commendator from the presidency of the republic. She is a member of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), serves as director of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and is a level 1B researcher at CNPq.