Meet the winners of the 8th IMPA Journalism Award

Math category:

1st Place
Luiz Felipe Fernandes Neves – UFG Newspaper
“The mathematical beauty of fractals”

2nd Place
Pedro Santos Teixeira – Folha de S.Paulo
“Understand the math that makes most bettors lose and bets profit”

3rd Place
Levi Guimarães Luiz, Álvaro Pereira Júnior, Wellington Almeida, Nathália Butti and Jae Ho Ahn – Fantástico – TV Globo
“Digital Minds – The age of artificial intelligence”

Honorable mentions:
“How neuroscience and education broke all taboos about Mathematics – and that changes your life”, by journalist Renata Cafardo, from the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, and the report “Breaking the Code: Women and Artificial Intelligence”, by Carina Dourado, Cleiton Freitas, André Rodrigo Pacheco, Marcelo Vasconcelos, Márcio Stuckert, Caroline Ramos and Alex Sakata, of TV Brasil.

Science Communication Category:

1st Place
Vinícius Sassine and Lalo de Almeida – Folha de S. Paulo
“Climate Change in the Amazon”

2nd Place
Levi Guimarães, Felipe Santana, Luigi Sofio, Lariza Relvas, Alex Carvalho, Nathália Butti and Marco Arantes – Fantástico – TV Globo
“Quantum computer: how the technology that promises to revolutionize life on Earth works”

3rd Place
Lucas Machado, Renata Lage, Andressa Gonçalves and Vanessa Fernandes – GloboNews – TV Globo
“Beyond the Diagnosis – Two cured of HIV”

Honorable mentions:
The series “Diário da Antártida”, by Phillippe Watanabe and Elvis Pereira, from Folha de S.Paulo, and the series “Microplastic in the vein”, by Paulo Leite and Flávia Peixoto, from TV Brasil.

IMPA Journalism Award

The IMPA Journalism Award reached its eighth edition in 2025 consolidated as one of the main recognitions for scientific journalism in the country. The winners were selected by a jury of scientists and journalists, formed by the director general of IMPA, Marcelo Viana, the president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), Helena Nader, and journalists Sabine Righetti, researcher at Labjor-Unicamp and founder of Agência Bori, and Raphael Gomide, coordinator of IMPA’s Press Office.

In this edition, the Award received 224 entries for reports and series published in newspapers, television, news website, radio and podcast. The number of participants was the second highest recorded in the history of the contest, which in 2020 received 227 entries.

The contest distributed a total of R$ 36 thousand to the winners. The awards are identical in both categories: R$ 10 thousand for 1st place, R$ 5 thousand for 2nd and R$ 3 thousand for 3rd place.

Award Ceremony: The selected journalists will be invited to participate in an online chat with the director general of IMPA, on a date to be announced. The initiative aims to encourage dialogue about the challenges and relevance of science communication in Brazil.

For questions and clarifications, contact IMPA’s Communication Office:
Email: imprensa@impa.br
Phone: (21) 2529-5172

Check out the previous awards:
7th IMPA Journalism Award
6th IMPA Journalism Award
5th IMPA Journalism Award
4th IMPA Journalism Award
3rd IMPA Journalism Award
2nd IMPA Journalism Award
1st IMPA Journalism Award