In celebration of International Women’s Day, this year we are spotlighting the incredible work of Brazilian Women of the University of Oxford in STEM (Science, Tech, Engineer and Maths). Our series started on Monday the 2nd of March and you can check it all on our Instagram stories highlights #womeninstem
Here are the brilliant scientists that took part on the project (left to right):
Mariana de Oliveira Silva
Mariana is from São Paulo, Brazil, and obtained her bachelor in Technological Chemistry and her master in Physical Chemistry at the University of Campinas. She is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, and is working on producing novel colloidal particles for the study of liquid crystal in confinement.
Luana Campos Soares
Luana is doing her DPhil in Oncology. Her research involves understanding the mechanisms that regulate the maintenance of neural and glioma stem cell populations. She graduated from Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil (2014) with a major in Biology. She then obtained her Masters in Oncology (2016) working at A.C. Camargo Cancer Center.
Beatriz Silveira de Arruda
Beatriz is a first-year DPhil student in Clinical Neurosciences. She focuses on the development of non-invasive means of treating tremor in essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Born and raised in Brazil, Beatriz obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience from Brown University, USA, in 2019.
Natalia Vieira
Natalia is doing her DPhil in the Chemistry Department, developing new catalysts to produce polymers (plastic) using CO2 and epoxide. Natalia carried out her 4th year undergraduate research project working on molecular magnetism and her Master’s research project on supramolecular chemistry and molecular magnetism at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, before coming to Oxford.
