Olavo Bohrer Amaral
Open Science
Olavo Amaral is a physician-scientist and fiction writer. He earned his medical degree and doctorate in biological sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He also completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Amaral is a lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has published three books of short stories.
Dr. Amaral’s research on reproducibility is a groundbreaking and significant step forward for Brazilian science. As the head of the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, he aims to replicate Brazilian biomedical studies to evaluate their validity. Despite his busy schedule as a university lecturer and researcher, Dr. Amaral also finds time to play the clarinet, guitar, and piano. He is married to a neuroscientist and has a son and a stepson.
