Biography:

Nelio Bizzo is a full professor of Science Education at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq, Brazil), and Fellow of the Institute of Biology (London). With a degree in Biology (USP) and Master in Evolutionary Biology (USP), he was a doctoral student at the University of Liverpool (UK), when he carried out research with Charles Darwins papers kept in the Manuscripts Room (University of Cambridge Library). He presented a thesis entitled History of Darwinism and Teaching Evolution to the Faculty of Education of the University of Sao Paulo (1991). He had a post-doctoral period of studies in 1993 in the University of Leeds (UK). He wrote several papers and books, especially in the subject of Darwinian studies, organised a major international conference on science education (X IOSTE Symposium, 2002), and became president of the International Organisation for Science and Technology Education (IOSTE), in the period 2004-2006. In Brazil he was the Secretary of Education and Member of the National Council of Education (2000-2004). He organised and took part in an excursion to the same places Charles Darwin had been in the Andes in March-April 1835, which became a TV documentary, produced by the leading public TV channel in Brazil (Darwin nos Andes, TV Cultura, So Paulo, 2002). His research interests include History of Science and Education, and he is currently involved with several disciplines for undergraduate and graduate students.

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