# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/natalia-pasternak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:20.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/natalia-pasternak"
name: "Natalia Pasternak"
slug: "natalia-pasternak"
description: "Natalia Pasternak Taschner is a Brazilian microbiologist, author, and science communicator. She is the first president of the Instituto Questão de Ciência (IQC). She was director of the Brazilian arm of the science festival, Pint of Science (2016–2019), columnist for the Brazilian national newspaper \"O Globo\", for The Skeptic magazine (UK), and Medscape (WebMD). She also hosts two weekly radio shows \"The hour of Science\" at Brazil's CBN national radio station. Taschner is also the publisher of Brazil's first magazine on critical thinking, Revista Questao de Ciencia."
tagline: "Brazilian biologist and science advocate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Natalia_Pasternak_IQC_2019-1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1976-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.017094017094017
  historical:           8.565373333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "taschnernatalia"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/nataliapasternaktaschner/"
    handle:    "nataliapasternaktaschner"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "nataliapasternak.taschner"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://iqc.org.br/diretoria/natalia-pasternak"
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    title: "娜塔莉亞·帕斯捷爾納克·塔施納"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ناتاليا باسترناك تاشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak"
    title: "Natalia Pasternak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak_Taschner"
    title: "Natalia Pasternak Taschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak"
    title: "Natalia Pasternak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak"
    title: "Natalia Pasternak"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak_Taschner"
    title: "Natalia Pasternak Taschner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak"
    title: "Natalia Pasternak"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Pasternak"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%DB%81_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "نتالیہ پاسٹرنک تاشنر"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump