Natalia Pasternak Taschner

Natalia Pasternak is a microbiologist, with a PhD and post-doctorate in microbiology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is the publisher of Question of Science magazine and president of Question of Science Institute. In 2020 and 2021, she was chosen Brazilian of the Year in Science by IstoE Magazine. She was chosen Personality of the Year by the Group of Latin America Daily Newspapers and received the Ockham Award from The Skeptic magazine.

She has written three books on popularization of science including Science in our daily lives, which won Brazil's National Literature prize for best science book in 2021. She is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Science and Society and an Adjunct Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she teaches on the use of science for policy making. Her research focuses on how to improve science communication, vaccine uptake, and combat denialism and misinformation, and helping to create an international collaboration for science-based global policies.