Suzana Herculano-Houzel Explained

Birth Name:Suzana Carvalho Herculano
Birth Place:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Field:Neuroscience
Work Institution:Vanderbilt University
Alma Mater:Case Western Reserve University
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Max Planck Institute
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Suzana Herculano-Houzel (born 1972) is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting neurons in human and other animals' brains[1] and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and the thickness and number of cortical folds.[2]

Career

Suzana Herculano-Houzel was born in 1972 in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1992), took a master's degree at Case Western Reserve (1995), and a doctorate in neuroscience at Paris VI University (1999). She was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

Herculano-Houzel was a faculty member at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from 2002 to May 2016, when she moved to Vanderbilt University.[3]

She published books on popularization of science and writes columns for Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and Scientific American Brazil magazine. She was the first Brazilian speaker on TED Global in 2013.[4] [5]

She won the José Reis Prize for Science Communication in 2004.

Personal life

Herculano-Houzel was diagnosed with autism as an adult.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Herculano-Houzel. Suzana. Lent. Roberto. Isotropic Fractionator: A Simple, Rapid Method for the Quantification of Total Cell and Neuron Numbers in the Brain. The Journal of Neuroscience. 9 March 2005. 25. 10. 2518–2521. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4526-04.2005. 15758160. free. 6725175.
  2. Herculano-Houzel. Suzana. Mota. Bruno. Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons. Science. 3 July 2015. 349. 6243. 74–77. 10.1126/science.aaa9101. 26138976.
  3. Web site: Neurocientista Suzana Herculano-Houzel deixa o país . Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel leaves the country . pt . piauí . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160503122348/http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/questoes-da-ciencia/neurocientista-suzana-herculano-houzel-deixa-o-pais/ . 2016-05-03 .
  4. News: A mulher que encolheu o cérebro humano. 25 August 2015. O Globo. 24 May 2013. Rio de Janeiro. Portuguese.
  5. Web site: Herculano-Houzel. Suzana. What is so Special about the human brain?. TED. 25 August 2015.
  6. Web site: Lopes . Reinaldo José . 'Parem de tentar consertar a gente', diz Suzana Herculano-Houzel sobre espectro autista . . 4 May 2024 . 23 July 2023 . Portuguese.