Taschner is also the publisher of Brazil's first magazine on critical thinking, Revista Questao de Ciencia.

She is the only Brazilian on the BBC's list of the 100 most influential women in 2021,[4] and she is now an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Science and Society, thanks to Professor Stuart Firestein's offer.

[2] Her research focuses on ways to enhance science communication and battle denial and disinformation, as well as bringing scientific thought to future policymakers and assisting in the establishment of a worldwide partnership for evidence-based global policies.

[6] Pasternak entered the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1998 and received her BSc degree in Biological Sciences in 2001.

She subsequently obtained a PhD degree in Biological Sciences (Microbiology) in 2006 from the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo (IBS-USP), with the thesis entitled The regulation of alkaline phosphatase by the sigma factor S of RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli.

Pasternak became director of the Brazilian arm of Pint of Science from 2015 to 2019, in which she coordinated scientific lectures in bars in more than 50 cities in Brazil.

[11] In 2018 she became the first president of the Instituto Questão de Ciência, (IQC) an organisation focused on the defense of scientific evidence used in public policies.