Eduarda Centeno, winner of the 2025 Open Science Thesis Award
Organized for the first time in 2024, the Open Science Thesis Award aims to encourage and highlight open science practices among doctoral students.
The award recognizes theses in which open science practices have contributed to the quality of the scientific work.
Part of the second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Thesis Award complements the open science awards established in 2022 for research data and free research software.
Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno is one of the winners in the “medicine and biology health” category.
Eduarda Centeno is originally from Brazil. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Pelotas and a master’s degree in Neuroscience from the NEURASMUS program (double degree: University of Bordeaux, France, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands). She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Bordeaux in 2024, where she was a PhD student in Arthur Leblois’ team (IMN).
She is currently the Executive Director of the Brazilian Reproducibility Network (BrRN), where she leads community management and advocacy efforts. In this role, she engages with stakeholders ranging from undergraduate students to directors of Brazilian funding agencies and government bodies, promoting reproducibility and open research practices from the bottom up and from the top down.
Title of the thesis : «The investigation of songbirds’ cortical-basal ganglia neural sleep dynamics through an Open Science-inspired computational framework”