Meire Fortunato is a senior research scientist at DeepMind since 2016, working in Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. She is originally from Corbélia, Paraná, Brazil and received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Mathematics at UNICAMP, in Brazil. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Recently, Meire has focused her work to understand the role of memory in agents: how to explicitly test it and how to integrate working and external memory modules in order to tackle different time scale dependencies.