Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Suzana Herculano-Houzel (born 1972) is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting of neurons of human and other animals' brains[1] and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and thickness and number of cortical folds .[2]
Biography
Suzana Herculano-Houzel was born in 1972 in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in Biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (1992), got a master's degree at Case Western Reserve, a doctorate at Paris VI University (1995) and post-doctorate at Max Planck Institute (1999), all in neuroscience.
Herculano-Houzel was a faculty member at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from 2002 up to May, 2016, when she moved to join Vanderbilt University.[3]
She published books on popularization of science and writes columns for Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and Scientific American Brazil magazine. She was the first Brazilian speaker on TED Global in 2013.[4][5]
She won the José Reis Prize of Science Communication in 2004.
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- 1972 births
- Brazilian neuroscientists
- Brazilian women scientists
- People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro faculty
- Recipients of the José Reis Award of Scientific Divulgation
- Living people
- Vanderbilt University faculty
- Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States
- Max Planck Society alumni
