Who we are
Suzana Herculano-Houzel, P.I.
- Associate Professor, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
- B.Sc. in Biology (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1992), M.Sc. in Neuroscience (Case Western Reserve University, 1995, with Story Landis), Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Université Paris VI, 1999, with Yves Frégnac and Max-Planck-Institut for Brain Research, with Wolf Singer).
- Scientist, National Research Council (CNPq) since 2007; Young Scientist of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) since 2007.
- Author of six books for the general public on the neuroscience of everyday life, with over 60,000 copies sold.
- Regular writer for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo since 2006, and writer and presenter of the TV series Neurológica (Fantástico, Rede Globo de Televisão) since 2008.
E-mail: suzanahh@gmail.com
Bruno Mota, postdoctoral fellow since 2008
- Ph.D. in Physics (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, 2007).
Priscilla Morterá, Ph.D. candidate since 2009, undergraduate student 2005-2007
Nilma Araújo, veterinarian, M.Sc. candidate since 2009
Luisa Pimentel, M. Sc., pharmacologist, neuroscience writer-in-training, since 2008
Suellen Almeida, undergraduate student, neuroscience writer-in-training, since 2009
Mariana Gabi, undergraduate student, since 2007
Pedro Ribeiro, undergraduate student, since 2007
Natália Sales, undergraduate student, since 2008
Natália Freitas Souza, undergraduate student, since 2009
Bianca Torres de Mendonça, undergraduate student, since 2007
Lissa Ventura, undergraduate student, since 2008
Former lab members
Frederico Azevedo (co-supervised with Roberto Lent), M.Sc. awarded in 2008. Determined the cellular composition of the adult human brain (Azevedo et al., 2009).
Fabiana Bandeira (co-supervised with Roberto Lent), Ph.D. awarded in 2007. Examined the postnatal changes in the cellular composition of the rat brain (Bandeira et al., 2009).