Professor Renata Pardini

University of São Paulo

Renata Pardini is a Brazilian ecologist and professor at the University of São Paulo, one of Brazil's top research institutions. She received her Ph.D. at the University of São Paulo in 2001 and also had her postdoctoral training there. She is a highly productive scientist who studies mammal communities and the impacts of human habitat alteration, especially in the heavily fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forests. She has received several prominent awards for her publications, several of which are very highly cited. She is recognized as one of Brazil's rising stars in the field of conservation biology.