Ana is an ecologist (UNESP 2000), with a post-graduate degree in Biodiversity Conservation (Spain 2002) and a PhD in Ecology (University of Oxford, England 2008). Currently she is a professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, working at the Laboratory of Conservation in the 21st Century (LACOS21), developing research on biodiversity conservation, assets in Protected Areas, Cultural Ecosystem Services, Scientometrics, Culturomics, etc. Ana is also mother of Jasmine and Beatrice and always dreamed of taking research closer to society, since 2020 she has intensified the actions of scientific dissemination to children and society as a whole.