Rate My Professor Bianca Rangel

Bianca de Sousa Rangel is a biologist affiliated with the Institute of Biosciences at Universidade de São Paulo. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Universidade Nove de Julho in 2015. She completed a Master of Science in General Physiology in 2018 and a PhD in General Physiology in 2023, both from the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Biosciences, Universidade de São Paulo. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research at the Laboratory of Behavior and Evolutionary Physiology at the same institute, supported by a FAPESP fellowship. Her work centers on the ecophysiology of elasmobranchs, with emphasis on energy metabolism, reproductive physiology, trophic ecology, and the application of physiological and trophic biomarkers as non-lethal tools for conservation studies of sharks and stingrays.

Rangel has participated in field expeditions in locations including the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Florida state waters, the Paraná River, and marine protected areas along the São Paulo coast. She has collaborated with the Shark Research and Conservation Program at the University of Miami. She founded and coordinates the Tubarões e Raias de Noronha project and serves as Vice President of the Instituto Vida no Oceano. She is also the founder of the Oceânicas: Girls and Women in Island Science initiative and co-coordinator of the Observers of Nature for the Environmental Development of Brazilian Oceanic Islands Project. Rangel has held leadership roles in the Brazilian Society for Elasmobranchs Studies, including as President of its Communication Committee from 2018 to 2020, and has contributed to organizing scientific meetings such as the ELASMulheres symposium and the XI Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Elasmobranchs Studies.