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Alexandre Quintanilha | |
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 Quintanilha in 2015 | |
| Member of the Portuguese Parliament | |
| In office 23 October 2015 – 25 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Porto |
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| Born | Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha (1945-08-09)9 August 1945 (age 79) Lourenço Marques (nowMaputo),Portuguese Mozambique |
| Citizenship | Portugal |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
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| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand University of Paris |
| Website | Parliament Website - Parlamento.pt |
Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha,GOSE (born 9 August 1945) is a Portuguese scientist, former director of theInstituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology) of theUniversity of Porto and Professor atICBAS - Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences.
Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha,GOSE was born in Lourenço Marques (nowMaputo)Portuguese East Africa on August 9, 1945, at the time aPortuguese colony. His father, Aurélio Quintanilha, was Portuguese, from theAzores islands, and one of the first scientists to studyfungi. Aurélio Quintanilha worked in Coimbra, Berlin and Paris. Alexandre Quintanilha's mother was German, from Berlin. The family moved to Mozambique in the 1940s, where Alexandre was born.
Quintanilha completed his secondary school studies in Lourenço Marques, then went to South Africa to study at university level. He completed hisB.Sc. (Hons) intheoretical physics in 1967 (University of the Witwatersrand, inJohannesburg), and hisPh.D. insolid state physics in 1972 (University of Paris).
Quintanilha switched his focus to biology on moving to California in 1972. He worked for nearly 18 years at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, in the US, before returning to Portugal in 1990 and becoming director of theInstituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology) of theUniversity of Porto.
Alexandre is married to his longtime partner,North-American writer and journalistRichard Zimler. They met in December of 1978 and began living together that same month. They married as soon assame-sex marriage was legalized inPortugal, in 2010. Since 1990 the two men have been living inPorto,Portugal.
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