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Natalia Pasternak Taschner

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Natalia Pasternak is a Brazilian science writer and communicator. She holds a PhD and post-doctorate in Microbiology, writes for the Brazilian national newspaper O Globo; and for The Skeptic magazine (UK). She is a professor of science communication and policy at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIPA), at Columbia University. She is president of Question of Science Institute in Brazil, and the first Brazilian to become a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) USA, in recognition of outstanding work in the promotion of science, skepticism and critical thinking. She has written three books on popularization of science, Science in our daily lives, winner of Brazils National Literature prize for best Science book in 2021, Against Reality: science denialism, its causes and consequences, and Such Nonsense, pseudosciences and other crazy allegations that should not be taken seriously, a best-seller reaching number 1 in the non-fiction category. She was the only Brazilian listed by BBC as the 100 most influential women of 2021, at the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most influential jews in the world in 2022, she won the Balles Prize for the promotion of critical thinking in 2022. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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