2007 - 2012
Anamaria Camargo Aranha
| Biography | Born on 19 September 1971 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Camargo obtained her PhD (Molecular Parasitology) at the University of São Paulo in 1997 and did her postdoctoral work at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in São Paulo Brazil in 1998. She is the Associate Director of the Ludwig Institute and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genomics at the same Institution. She is a molecular biologist and her research focuses on fundamental and applied aspects of cancer genetics and genomics. She is a member of the Academy of Science of the State of São Paulo and was awarded the Scientific and Technological Merit from the São Paulo State Government, the Moinho Santista Award for Young Scientist in Genetics from the BUNGE Foundation, and the TWAS Young Scientist Prize. |
Ernesto Lupercio Lara
Gabriel A. Rabinovich
Juan Larrain
Marcelo Knobel
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| | Affiliated | Physics | Brazil | knobel@ifi.unicamp.br |
| Biography | | Marcelo Knobel is a Full Professor of the Instituto de Física “Gleb Wataghin” (Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute), of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (State University of Campinas, UNICAMP). He has a PhD in Physics from UNICAMP, and post-doctorate stages at “Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris”, Turin, Italy, and “Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado”, Madrid, Spain. Since 1999 he leads the Laboratório de Materiais e Baixas Temperaturas (Materials and Low Temperatures Laboratory), from 2002 to 2006 he coordinated de Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade (Criativity Development Center, NUDECRI), of UNICAMP and from 2006 and 2008 he was the Executive Director of the Campinas Science Museum, also at UNICAMP. He is the coordinator of the project NanoAventura (NanoAdventure). Dr. Knobel has published more than 200 articles in refereed journals, mainly in the field of magnetism and magnetic materials. He has presented more than 80 invited seminars in several institutions, and more than 40 invited lectures in international conferences. Dr. Knobel has been enthusiastically promoting the popularization of science and technology in Brazil. |
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