Daniela Oliveira

Former Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Healthy Minds

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Dates of Employment: September 2019 - September 2020

While at the Center, Daniela was broadly interested in investigating the relationship of the contemplative practice to epigenetic regulation mechanisms that might be able to protect and promote physical and psychological well-being. She was also interested in the impact of mindfulness-based practices on student and teacher well-being. At the Center, she was particularly interested in work that contributes to understanding psychological well-being and their genetic and epigenetic mechanisms.

Daniela has a diverse background. She is a neuroscientist and research affiliate at the Department of Pathology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil. Before joining the Center, she led her own project in neuroscience for education and mindfulness-based practices on teachers and students in Brazilian Public Schools.

Education

Research affiliate, Department of Pathology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Kindfulness instructor in training with Lama Jigme Lhawang, Contemplative Science Institute of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Mindfulness Meditation instructor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Professor in Contemplative Neuroscience at Contemplative Science Institute of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Visiting professor in Neurobiology of Mindfulness, Mindfulness & Genetic and Epigenetic, and Mindfulness & Education, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), campus Santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brazil.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmacy & Nutrition, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo (UFES), Alegre, ES, Brazil.

Adjunct Professor, Centro Universitario Sant’Anna, São Paulo, Brazil.

Postdoctoral, Public Health (focus on Mindfulness and Epigenetic Mechanisms), Department of Medicine Preventive, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Postdoctoral, Neuroscience, MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.

PhD, Molecular/Genetic Neuroscience, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Department of Genetics, São Paulo, Brazil.

MSc, Molecular/Genetic Neuroscience, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Department of Genetics, São Paulo, Brazil.

B Pharm, Pharmacy & Biochemistry, Universidade São Francisco (USF), Bragrança Paulista, Brazil.