I am Vanessa Leite, D.Sc. in Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETHz. I have a Master's in Computer Graphics from PUC-Rio, Brazil (2012), and a Bachelor's in Computer Science. 

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My participation in the fight for gender equality dates back to 2006, when I joined the Computer Science Central Students Directorate at the Federal University of Maranhão. There, as a member of the students' directorate, I used to explain feminism, gender bias, and harassment to all the students.

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In 2019, already in Zurich, I joined the “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee at the Neuroscience Center (EIC - ZNZ), where I worked on my Ph.D.

 

In 2019, I also joined the 500WS Zurich Pod, and in 2020, I became part of the coordination team.​