Suzana Herculano-Houzel creates bilingual neuroscience website – 12/28/2023 – Mônica Bergamo

The neuroscientist, biologist and columnist for Sheet Suzana Herculano-Houzel launched a bilingual website, in Portuguese and English, to talk about neuroscience.

The platform, according to her, aims to present content on the topic for different levels of knowledge. The website is available at this address.

Herculano-Houzel currently holds the Otavio Frias Filho Chair in Studies in Communication, Democracy and Diversity, created by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA) at USP in partnership with Folha.

Herculano-Houzel has been an associate professor at Vanderbilt University, in the United States, since 2016. She is one of the main names in Brazilian neuroscience, with works of international repercussion.

The professor also has a strong presence in the area of ​​scientific dissemination. She is the author of several books for the lay public, such as “A Vantagem Humana — Como Nosso Cérebro se Tornou Superpoderoso” (Companhia das Letras), and has also been the presenter of a show on Fantástico, on TV Globo.

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