Dr. Alessandra Nara de Souza Rastelli
Prof, DDS, PhD
São Paulo State University-UNESP, Araraquara
Professor Alessandra Nara de Souza Rastelli is a DDS, graduated at the State University of Ponta Grossa-UEPG, School of Dentistry, Parana, Brazil (1996) and completed Master’s (2002) and PhD Degree (2004) at São Paulo State University-UNESP, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. She worked as a Visiting Scientist at University of Erlangen, Germany; ACTA of Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Birmingham, UK and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Harvard, Boston, MA, USA. She is an Associate Professor at UNESP.
Since 2015, she is the head of the Biophotonics/Bionanomaterials Laboratory at School of Dentistry-UNESP. She works on the application of light sources (lasers and LEDs) in the oral health (antimicrobial photodynamic therapy, dental bleaching, photoactivation of dental materials and biostimulation). Supervisor of Master’s and PhD’s students, and more than 100 papers published based on the Biophotonics field.