The Royal Society
Ana Guerra Pereira is a seasoned professional in international grants and scholarship programs, currently serving as Senior Manager for International Grants at The Royal Society since March 2021. Previous roles include Director of the Fulbright Awards Programme and various positions at the US-UK Fulbright Commission from March 2014 to September 2020, as well as experience as a translator and programme officer in diverse educational organizations. Ana's academic background includes a Master of Arts in Russian Studies from UCL, studies in Russian Language and History of Art from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Translation from Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. The Society is independent of government, as it has been throughout its existence, by virtue of its Royal Charters. In 1663, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge was granted its Arms and adopted the motto "Nullius in verba", an expression of its enduring commitment to empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world. The Society's activities include influencing science and education policy, funding leading researchers, publishing journals that span all the sciences and the history of science, and the provision of science communication activities for a variety of public audiences.