Rosa Maria Martins de Almeida
PhD in Physiology (UFRGS)
Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) from 2010 to the present. She holds a degree in Psychology from UFRGS (1990), a Master's degree (1990-1992) and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences: Physiology from UFRGS (1992-1997), and a postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts University (Boston, USA, 1999-2002) in the field of Neuropsychopharmacology. She was part of the Board of the Brazilian Society of Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC) during the 2014-2017 and 2017-2020 terms; and served on the Board of the Brazilian Institute of Neuropsychology and Behavior (IBNeC) from 2015 to 2019, 2020 to 2022, and 2022 to 2026. She was Coordinator of the Education and Psychology Area at FAPERGS (2015-2017), Multidisciplinary Representative (2017-2019), and Health Area Representative (2019-2022). She was also Vice-Coordinator of the Psychobiology, Neuroscience, and Behavior Working Group (2016-2018) of the National Association for Postgraduate Research (ANPEPP). She is a Productivity Scholar (PQ 1D) at CNPq. In 2019, she received a CAPES Print scholarship for an international research fellowship at the Centre of Mental Health in Mannheim (ZI), Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sommer, focusing on translational research with an emphasis on drug addiction.