Fernando Cassas is a Brazilian researcher in ethnobotany at the Center for Ethnobotanical and Ethnopharmacological Studies (CEE), Department of Environmental Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Diadema. His work spans participatory ethnobotany with quilombola and Atlantic Forest communities and the documentation of medicinal plant knowledge. He co-authored a peer-reviewed study featured on the ICEERS website on long-term ayahuasca use, cognitive function and memory among Santo Daime members in Brazil.
