About me

Education

• PhD in statistics, The University of Sheffield, UK, 2010.
  Under supervision of Prof Tony O’Hagan and Prof Jeremy Oakley. (Thesis)
• MSc in statistics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003.
  Under supervison of Prof Dani Gamerman
• BSc in statistics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2002.
  Under supervison of Prof Rosangela Loschi and Prof Cibele Silva

Short bio

I hold a permanent position at Scientific Computing Program PROCC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since December 2012. I hold a productivity fellowship from CNPq (bolsa de produtividade) and a Our State Young Cientist fellowship from FAPERJ (Jovem cientista Nosso Estado). I consider myself an applied Bayesian (bio)statistician. I am an elected member of ISI and a registered statistician at the Brazilian Statistical Council CONRE2. I spent some time (2019-2020) in London working on infectious disease modelling at the CMMID/LSHTM, UK. My main research interests are on developing Bayesian statistical solutions/models to applied real problems, usually research questions related to infectious diseases epidemiology.

Awards

• Winner of Study UK Alumni Awards Brasil 2023/24, 2024
• Travel support award for the participation at the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) World Meeting, 2016.
• Third place at the Master dissertation award, Simpósio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatística, 2004.
• Finalist at the IASI (Instituto Interamericano de Estadística) award, 2004.
• Best paper at the 8th Escola de Modelos de Regressão, 2003.
• Finalist of the scientific initiation award at Federal University of Minas Gerais, 2002.
• Third place at best presentations at the XVI ENESTE (Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Estatística), 2001.

Students and collaborators awards

• Honour mention to Fernanda Oliveria’s PhD thesis in the 2023 Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award (Prêmio Oswaldo Cruz de Teses 2023) in the category Population Health, 2023.
• Best hemotherapy paper at the HEMO2022, Congresso Brasileiro de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular, 2022.
• Honour mention to Gisele V. Rocha paper at the IV Escola Brasileira de Modelagem Molecular (EBMM) , 2017.
• Second place to Natalia Paiva in the Scientific Initiation award at the 20th SINAPE, 2012.

Important links:

• Bayesian Statistical softwares
  • INLA: http://www.r-inla.org/
  • Stan: https://mc-stan.org/
  • Nimble: https://r-nimble.org/
• Brazilian microdata:
  • PNS: IBGE description and download and analysis in R
  • Vigitel: http://tabnet.datasus.gov.br/cgi/vigitel/vigteldescr.htm
  • Datasus: http://datasus.saude.gov.br/informacoes-de-saude/servicos2/transferencia-de-arquivos

Random stuff

• My Erdős Number is 4: Bastos > O’Hagan > Leonard > Taylor > Erdős (Calculate yours: Link)
  • Curiosity note: A list of my academic ancestors: O’Hagan, Lindley, Barnard, Poisson, Lagrange, Laplace, Euler, Bernoulli
• My profile in the Mathematics Genealogy project
• I am a Taekwondo student holding a 1st DAN black belt. My masters are:
  • Master Erico Soares (4th DAN)
  • Grandmaster Renato Ribeiro (7th DAN).