Claudia Domingues Vargas

Biologist, she did her master in Biophysics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1992) and her Ph.D. in Biological Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997). She is Associate Professor at the Department of Neurobiology of the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 1997. Has experience in Neurofisiology. Her main scientific interests are motor cognition, control of posture and voluntary movement and brain plasticity after peripheral lesions. She is founder and head of the Laboratory of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of the Institute of Neurology Deolindo Couto of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, funded by FAPERJ and CNPq. She has also been working on the interdisciplinary domain of Neuromathematics, in association with the Núcleo de Apoio à Pesquisa em Modelagem Estocástica e Complexidade (NUMEC) of IME/USP. She is also principal investigator at the Center of Research, Inovation and Dissemination in Neuromatthematics (NeuroMat), funded by FAPESP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)