Undergraduate Students
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Vinicius Werneck Salazar - Undergraduate Student
Vinicius is an undergraduate biology student, born and raised in the island city of Florianópolis. After choosing a career in biology instead of studying to be a musician, he went to Australia for university exchange. There, he learned to love sharks and corals alike and that he could unite both of his passions in natural sciences: marine science and microbiology. When he is not in the lab working on the computer or out in the field diving, he likes to bother his neighbours by playing really loud.
Fernando de Freitas - Undergraduate Student
I chose biology because I always liked the course during high school. Moreover, I had a lot of contact with nature when I was younger. Nowadays, biological and computer sciences are the main focus of my studies, making bioinformatics the perfect tool for my job.
Lisiane Heinzen de Liz - Undergraduate Student
Spending holidays on the beach made me observe the sea for hours. Although the ocean covers most of our planet, it brings us so many mysteries, doubts and curiosities. Some people may think it is a "joke", but when I was a child, I loved to watch the movie "The Little Mermaid" and "Finding Nemo", where both showed great ocean floor richness. These details aroused interests on me in choosing the Bachelor course in Oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in order to learn more about the vast ocean that surrounds us. The course covers several fields - physics, chemistry, biological, geological and management. I'm still an undergraduate student, attending the 7th semester. This is my first experience as a volunteer intern, working on a project that aims to identify bacteria that produces hydrogen, present in dead zones, from phylogenetic determination, and this gives us ways to quantify the energy production by bacteria.
Juana Gerevini Bozzetto - Undergraduate Student
I have always lived in a big and urbanized city, what made my activities outside very limited. On the other hand, on every vacation my family and I used to travel to places near to the sea. This way, I’ve started to be closer to this environment, and when I grew up I decided to work towards it, with the purpose to conservate it and help to spread the importance of the oceans in human society and global progress. To get to this goal, I have entered in the Bachelor course of Oceanography at Federal University of Santa Catarina.