About me

Short bio

I hold a permanent position at the Scientific Computing Programme PROCC, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since December 2012. I hold a productivity fellowship from CNPq (bolsa de produtividade) and a Our State Young Scientist 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 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and in the CMMID in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 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. I am also a father of three boys.

My family in a wedding, June 2024

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

  

  My MSc supervisor, Prof Dani Gamerman (UFRJ), and my BSc supervisor, Prof Rosangela Loschi (UFMG), in the 2024 ISBA, Veneza, Italia.

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

• First place to Guilherme Silva in the Master dissertation award at the 25th SINAPE, 2024.
• 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).

    

    Exame de faixa, 2015.