Celina Maria Turchi Martelli is a Brazilian epidemiologist, graduated by Federal University of Goiás and researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Recife. She first associated the link between zika virus and microcephaly in newborn babies during the 2015 disease outbreak in Brazil; she was listed by "Nature" magazine as one of the 10 most notable people in science in 2016, and by "Time" magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2017.