Ricardo Luiz Nunes de Souza

PhD in Psychobiology (University of São Paulo). He has expertise in Behavioral Pharmacology at Institute of Pharmacology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (1989) and University of Leeds, UK (1999). Full Professor of Pharmacology at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo Sate University (UNESP). Head of the Joint Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences (UFSCar-UNESP, 2013-2017). Member of the editorial board of the Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. Nunes-de-Souza was also President of the Brazilian Society for Neurosciences and Behavior (2014-2017). Since 2018 is head of the scientific committee of the III FALAN Congress (Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Neuroscience Societies). Dr. Nunes-de-Souza was chosen by the CNPq Deliberative Council (CD) to form the Advisory Committee on Biophysics, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Physiology and Neurosciences (CA-BF), with a three-year term of office from 01/07/2019 to 30/06/2022. Principal line of research: Neurobiology of pain and defense reactions in rodents. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)