Dr. Luciana Pinato is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and serves as the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Speech Language Pathology at the same institution. She graduated in dentistry from the São Paulo State University-UNESP in 1995. She obtained her master’s degree in Morphofunctional Sciences from the University of São Paulo-USP in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Morphofunctional Sciences from the University of São Paulo-USP in 2007. She obtained a postdoctoral degree at the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo in 2009 and a Chartered Fellowship in Neuroanatomy at the State University of São Paulo in 2018. Her research mainly focuses on neuroanatomy and neuroscience, particularly in the areas of the pineal gland, melatonin, serotonin, neuroinflammation, behavior, sleep, and biological rhythms.