Suzana Herculano-Houzel (born 1972) is a Brazilian

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial ...

. Her main field of work is comparative

neuroanatomy Neuroanatomy is the study of the structure and organization of the nervous system. In contrast to animals with radial symmetry, whose nervous system consists of a distributed network of cells, animals with bilateral symmetry have segregated, defi ...

; her findings include a method of counting of neurons of human and other animals' brains and the relation between the

cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals. The cerebral cortex mostly consists of the six-layered neocortex, with just 10% consisting o ...

area and thickness and number of cortical folds .

Biography

Suzana Herculano-Houzel was born in 1972 in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in biology at the

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro or University of Brazil (UFRJ; pt, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro or ') is a public research university located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the ...

(1992), took a master's degree at

Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

(1995), and a doctorate in neuroscience at

Paris VI University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the La ...

(1999). She was also a post-doctoral fellow a
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
(1999). Herculano-Houzel was a faculty member at the

from 2002 to May 2016, when she moved to

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. 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 TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded by Richard Sau ...

in 2013. She won the José Reis Prize of Science Communication in 2004.

Publications

* ''Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable''. Editor: The Mit Press; (2016).

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Suzana Herculano-Houzel's Currículo Lattes at CNPq
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Biography

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