Luisa Diele-Viegas is currently a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil and the vice-president of the Brazilian Association of Ecological Sciences and Conservation. Her research interests involve assessing the impact of human actions on biodiversity, focusing on climate change and reptiles. She also studies the implicit and explicit biases in academia, considering gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, people with disabilities and the intersections between groups. Luisa Diele-Viegas is a climate leader, founder of the science communication project Minha Amiga Cientista, one of the founders of the Fórum Clima Salvador, the Kunhã Asé network of women in science, and the Women in Zoology network. She is a member of UNESCO's Organization for women in science in the developing world and the Diversity and Inclusion Commission of the Brazilian Society of Herpetology!
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