María Gabriela Lagorio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She obtained her B.S. (Chemical Sciences) in 1982 at UBA. She worked in the private industry from 1983 to 1987. Subsequently, she started her research activities, obtaining her PhD in Chemical Sciences (UBA) in 1991 under the supervision of Dr. Silvia Braslavsky and Dr. Enrique San Roman. She is presently Professor at UBA and scientist researcher of CONICET. She is the head of the Research Group in Photochemistry and Photobiology in INQUIMAE (FCEN, UBA).  She also served as Head of the Department of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry, from 1-8-2022 to 31-07 2024. Her research field involves the photophysical and photochemical study of plant material and hybrid systems and her work is focused on the modeling and analysis of the interaction of light with biological entities.