Rate My Professor Alicia Kowaltowski

Professor Alicia Juliana Kowaltowski serves as Full Professor (Professor Titular) in the Department of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of the Universidade de São Paulo. She earned her medical degree from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 1997 and completed a doctorate in Medical Sciences. Kowaltowski directs the Laboratory of Energy Metabolism, where research examines changes in mitochondrial energy metabolism, ionic transport, and redox balance linked to physiological and pathological conditions including aging, obesity, diabetes, and infarction. The laboratory investigates the role of these mitochondrial alterations in such processes with the aim of identifying targeted interventions.

Kowaltowski is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 and the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award in 2024. Her contributions center on mitochondrial bioenergetics and redox biology in the context of human diseases.