Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP, Director of Center for Research in Digital Media and Coordinator of the Center for Peircean Studies, at PUC-SP

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Maria Lucia Santaella Braga is a professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP. She is the Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design, Director of Center for Research in Digital Media and Coordinator of the Center for Peircean Studies, at PUC-SP. 258 masters, doctors and post-docs defended their titles under her guidance, from 1978 to the present. She has 50 books published. Her most recent areas of research are: Communication, Cognitive and Computational Semiotics, Artificial Intelligence, Technological Aesthetics and Philosophy and Methodology of Science. She served as holder of the Oscar Sala Chair at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP (2021-2022).