Doctorate in physics from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF-1989), and post-doctorate from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (1994). Senior Researcher at CBPF. Was Coordinator of the Coordination of Relativity Cosmology and Astrophysics between 2009 and 2013. Her research focuses on the following themes: the early universe and cosmological models without singularity, cosmological perturbations of quantum origin and observational consequences on the anisotropy of the cosmic background radiation, quantum theory, quantum cosmology, gravitation and cosmology.

Email: nelsonpn _at_ cbpf _dot_ br