Maria Muntañola Cvetković

Maria Muntañola Cvetković ( Muntañola i Inglada; 26 August 1923 – 7 January 2011) was a Spanish mycologist based in Serbia. After fleeing to Argentina due to the Spanish Civil War, she obtained her degrees from the University of Buenos Aires and Sorbonne University and moved to Belgrade, where she worked as a professor at the University of Novi Sad and became a full professor at the University of Belgrade. A 1952 Guggenheim Fellow, she became one of Serbia's first microfungi experts, described eight species of ascomycetes and was the first president of the Mycological Society of Serbia.

Biography

Early life and career

Maria Muntañola i Inglada was born on 26 August 1923 in Gràcia, a district in northwestern Barcelona. Following an early career in Argentina, she later moved to Paris, where she obtained her PhD in 1958 at Sorbonne University; her dissertation was supervised by .

Personal life

Her first husband was , an entomologist who was a fellow UNT academic.