Solange Vereza is Professor In Linguistics at UFF- Fluminense Federal University, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. She holds a MA degree from London University, a PHD from The Catholic University, in São Paulo, and a post doctoral degree from São Paulo State University.

She is a member of the Post- Graduate Programme in Language Studies, where she teaches courses on Cognitive Linguistics and supervises MA dissertations and PhD theses. She publishes widely in the area of metaphor studies. Her current research interest lies in the cognitive-discursive trend in the area of metaphor.