Academic interests
- Infant and child neurodevelopment
- Early-life stressors
- Neuroimaging
- Biomarkers and early identification of individuals at-risk for NDD and socioemotional problems
- Early interventions
- Mental Health
- Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD)
- Developmental disabilities (DD)
- RCTs
- OpenScience
Instruction
I teach on the master's in special pedagogy at Østfold University College:
- Brain typical and atypical development
- Cognitive development
- Language development
Background
2008 – 2010 Postdoctoral. Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, Brazil. Scholarship from: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES, Brazil.
2002 – 2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Child Study Center, Yale University, United States.
1999 – 2001 Doctorate in Medicine: Medical Sciences. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brazil. Title: Anatomical and functional investigation of brain lesions induced by systemic lupus erythematosus, Year obtained: 2001. Advisor: Flavio Kapczinski. Scholarship from: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES, Brazil.
1996 – 1998 Master's degree in Biological Sciences (Neurosciences). Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brazil. Title: Extra and intraparenchymal branches of the anterior communicating artery in humans, Year of Obtainment: 1998. Advisor: Felipe Luis Schneider. Scholarship from: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES, Brazil.
1992 – 1995 Degree in Biological Sciences. Federal University of Paraná, UFPR, Brazil. Title: Contribution to the anatomical study of the middle cerebral artery. Advisor: Murilo Sousa Meneses.
Prizes
2022. 1st place in the e-poster Category - Ana Carolina Silveira, 1st Congress on Health and Education - Kaleidoscope - from the Bozelli Study Center.
2022. 3rd place in the e-poster Category - Tamara Bianchoni, 1st Congress on Health and Education - Kaleidoscope - from the Bozelli Study Center.
2019 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, Fulbright.
2015 Top Ten Cited RBP - Most Cited Review Articles in the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry - 2014, Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria.
2012 Winner of the Edwaldo Camargo Award, in the category of Best Work in Conventional Nuclear Medicine, XXVI Brazilian Congress of Nuclear Medicine.
2009 International Travel Fellowship Award, Society of Biological Psychiatry.
2008 AstraZeneca Marcos Pacheco de Toledo Ferraz Award - Best presentation of original study, Federal University of São Paulo., .
2008 Geriatric Psychiatry Award, Brazilian Psychiatric Association.
2007 Affiliated Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP.
2005. Research Award, National Alliance for Autism Research.
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Position
Periodic reviewer
2009–Current. Periodical: Acta Neuropsychiatrica
2009–Current. Journal: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
2008–Current. Journal: Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (São Paulo)
2007 – Current Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2008 – Current Periodical: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (Print)
2007 – Current Journal: Psychiatry Research. Neuroimaging
2015 – Current Journal: Human Brain Mapping
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Cooperation
International :
- Columbia University
- Duke University
- Federal University of Sao Paulo