Gulnar Azevedo e Silva
Gulnar Azevedo is the Rector of the State University of Rio de Janeiro State (UERJ) elected for the period 2024-2027.
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Anderson F. Brito
Anderson F. Brito is a virologist and bioinformatician. Currently, he serves as a research scientist at Instituto Todos pela Saúde (ITpS), an institution in Brazil dedicated to pandemic preparedness and rapid response to infectious threats.
Flávia Calé
Flávia Calé is a PhD student in the economic history program at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo.
Anna Cristina D’Addio
Anna Cristina D’Addio is an economist by background, and has worked as a senior policy analyst in the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report team at UNESCO since 2017.
Luiz Davidovich
Luiz Davidovich is professor emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a distinguished fellow of the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering of the University of Texas A&M.
Jaqueline Goes de Jesus
Jacqueline Goes is the officially appointed science ambassador in Brazil responsible for leading the group that sequenced the COVID genome in 48 hours.
Nobel Prize laureate
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche shares the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.”
Nobel Prize laureate
David MacMillan
David MacMillan shares the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.
Erika Lanner
Erika Lanner is the CEO and director of the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm since 2019.
Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá
Silvia Massruhá assumed the Presidency of Embrapa in May 2023. Among her areas of knowledge are the development of technologies for complex systems and interdisciplinary solutions for the future.
Nobel Prize laureate
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser shares the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Edvard Moser and John O’Keefe.
Helena B. Nader
Helena B. Nader serves as the president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and is professor emeritus at the Escola Paulista de Medicina of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp).
Antonio Augusto Fidalgo Neto
Antonio Fidalgo Neto is the Chief Researcher of SENAI Innovation Institute for Green Chemistry and the SESI Innovation Center for Occupational Health.
Leticia Palhares
Leticia Palhares is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for the period 2020-2023.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith is Chief Scientific Officer for Nobel Prize Outreach. His background is in scientific research and science publishing.
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier is a Vilas Research Professor and an Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A distinguished primatologist and conservationist she is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey.
Pedro Wongtschowski
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Pedro Wongtschowski is a chemical engineer with an MSc and PhD from the University of São Paulo. He has an extensive career as a business executive in major Brazilian public companies.
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