Rafael Silva Rodrigues

Graduated in Psychology from the University of São Paulo (USP). He holds a master's degree in Experimental Psychology (USP), with an internship at the Brain Research Institute, at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA-USA), and is currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Neurosciences at PUC-Rio. He has experience in the educational field, having worked in schools, pre-university courses and educational companies as a teacher, tutor and psychologist. He also has extensive experience in research, where he has carried out investigations in two main areas of his training: in Behavior Analysis, where he studied problem solving, creativity and creative cognition, and in the area of Psychopharmacology, focusing on the study of psychedelic substances and of non-ordinary states of consciousness. With an interdisciplinary focus, his main interest is the way human beings create ways to deal with suffering, thus transiting between the fields of Clinical Psychology, Anthropology and Neurosciences in his path. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)