RESEARCHERS
PUCRS

Introduction

José Luís Ferraro holds a PhD in Education and is a doctoral candidate in Criminal Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He holds a bachelor's degree in Law and a degree in Biological Sciences, as well as a master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from PUCRS. He was awarded a Level 2 Productivity Scholarship by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (University of Oxford Museum of Natural History) and the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences), with a CAPES/PrInt Scholarship; the University of Edinburgh (School of Social and Political Sciences); the University of Seville (Department of Metaphysics and Current Currents in Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Philosophy); and the Università Degli Study di Salerno (Department of Legal Sciences, School of Law) with a work mission funded by the CAPES/PrInt Program. Winner of the 2016 Institutional Skills Grant, promoted by the British Council of Brazil and financed by the Newton Fund, he coordinated science popularization and science outreach projects at Newcastle University (Great North Museum: Hancock). He is currently a professor in the Postgraduate Programs in Education and in Science and Mathematics Education at PUCRS and is a leading researcher in the Curriculum, Culture, and Contemporaneity Research Group (GPECCC PUCRS/CNPq).