Research areas

I am a (Bayesian) statistician by formation, so I naturally prefer working on developing statistical methods for applied problems. I am mainly involved on projects on statistical analysis for infectious diseases epidemiology.

Funded projects

• Disease surveillance:
  • Infodengue: https://info.dengue.mat.br
  • Infogripe: http://info.gripe.fiocruz.br
  • Mosqlimate: https://mosqlimate.org/
  • Disease Surveillance: https://diseasesurveillance.github.io/
  • Clima e Ciencia de Dados:
• Post-COVID
  • INOVA posdoc: Coortes de pacientes com Covid-19 e seus contactantes.

Past funded projects

• MAVE

Oportunities

If you are looking for a possible colaboration or an opportunity feel free to write to discuss a potencial project at all levels:

• Undergraduate students
  Scientific iniciation (PIBIC), it requires a CR>7 and at least a couple of months to prepare a project to submit to Fiocruz, FAPERJ, etc. PIBIC project under my supervision wiil basically be R development projects relate to my research interests.
• Graduate students (MSc and PhD)
  I am qualified to supervise students in two graduate programs: Epidemiology in Public Health at ENSP/Fiocruz and Systems and Computational Biology at IOC/Fiocruz. A project may be required, so please get in touch in advance at least 3 to 6 months before application (usually 2nd semester of each year)
• Posdoctoral reasearchers
  From time to time there are some posdoc scholarships available from the graduate programs (PNPD) and from other sources like FAPERJ, CNPq and international sources, let me know if you are interested.

Current supervision

Posdoc

• Heloisa Ferreira, (2024-) Sympthoms Long COVID in Rio de Janeiro.

PhD

• Roxana Flores Mamani (2023-) PhD in Tropical Medicine, Fiocruz (supervisor: Patricia Brasil)
• Ramilla de Alencar Sousa (2023-) PhD in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Eduardo Krempser)
• Raquel de Sousa Martins (2023-) PhD in Computational and Systems Biology, Fiocruz.
• Rowan Morris (2023-) PhD in Statistics, Queens Mary University of London (supervisor: Silvia Liverani).
• Léa de Freitas Amaral (2023-). PhD in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Raquel Lana)
• Guillermo Barrenechea (2022-). PhD in Epidemiology, VigiFronteiras, Fiocruz
• Karla de Araújo Ferreira (2022-). PhD in Epidemiology, Fiocruz

MSc

• Jo de Napoli (2024-) MSc in Computational and Systems Biology, Fiocruz.
• Isaac Gonçalves (2024-) MSc in Epidemiology, Fiocruz

BSc

Past students

Posdoc

• Fernanda Esthefane Garrides Oliveira (2023-2024) Fiocruz/INOVA.
• Raquel Lana (2020-2021) Fiocruz/INOVA-COVID
• Marcelo F C Gomes (2019-2019) BCS/Fiocruz.
• Sandro Sperandei (2017-2018) Fiocruz/FAPERJ (Supervisor Francisco Bastos)

PhD

• Camila Mattos Santos (2024) PhD in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Francisco I Bastos)
• Fernanda Esthefane Garrides Oliveira (2023) PhD in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Rosane Griep)
• Lucas Monteiro Bianchi (2023). PhD in Epidemiology, Fiocruz
• Gisele Vieira Rocha (2020) PhD in Computational and Systems Biology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Mauricio Garcia)
• Natália Santana Paiva (2018) PhD in Epidemiology at Fiocruz (Supervisor Francisco Bastos)
• Carolina Fausto de Souza Coutinho (2017) PhD in Epidemiology at Fiocruz (Supervisor Francisco Bastos)
• Maria Rita Lustosa Byington (2015) PhD in Epidemiology at Fiocruz (Supervisor Marilia Carvalho)
• Lidiane da Silveira Gouvea Toledo (2015) PhD in Epidemiology at Fiocruz (Supervisor Francisco Bastos)

MsC

• Tatiana Scheidt (2023). MSc in Epidemiology, VigiFronteiras, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Paulo Victor)
• Guilherme dos Santos (2023), MSc in Statistics, UFRJ (supervisor Kelly Gonçalves)
• Léa de Freitas Amaral (2023). MSc in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Raquel Lana)
• Julia Novaes de Barros Peixoto (2020) MSc student in Epidemiology, Fiocruz
• Camila Mattos Santos (2020) MSc student in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor: Carolina Coutinho)
• Ana Carolina de Queirós e Feijó (2019) MSc in Epidemiology, Fiocruz (co supervisor Leticia Cardoso)
• Fabio Jorge de Vasconcellos Júnior (2019) MSc in Systems and Computational Biology at Fiocruz. (Supervisor Floriano)
• Ana Carolina Cardoso Arruda Carvalho de Moura (2019) MSc in Epidemiogy at Fiocruz (Supervisor Claudia Codeco)
• Daniel Stokes (2016) MSc in Epidemiogy, Fiocruz (Co supervisor Marilia Carvalho)
• José Carlos Benfica (2015) MSc in Epidemiogy, Fiocruz (Co supervisor Paula Luz)
• Mohema Duarte de Oliveira (2015) MSc in Epidemiogy, Fiocruz
• Sebastian Genero (2014) MSc in Epidemiogy, Fiocruz (Co supervisor Marilia Carvalho)
• Gabriela Ricordi Bazin (2013) MSc in Child Health at UFF (Supervisor Claudete Cardoso)

BSc

• Juliane da Silva Falcão (2016-2017) Scientific iniciation, Fiocruz and IFRJ (co supervisor Roberta Niquini)
• Diego da Costa Moreira Barbosa (2016-2017) Scientific iniciation, Fiocruz and IFRJ (co supervisor Roberta Niquini)
• Monique de Abreu Rocha (2014-2015) BSc in Statistics, ENCE/IBGE.
• Bruno Laiber de Pinho (2014-2015) BSc in Statistics, ENCE/IBGE.
• Felipe Rocha Oshiro (2014-2015) BSc in Statistics, ENCE/IBGE.
• Leonara Alves Cesario da Silva (2014-2015) Scientific Iniciation, Fiocruz.
• Yasmin Ferreira Cavaliere (2014-2015) Scientific Iniciation, Fiocruz.
• Julia Villapouca Gesualdi (2013-2014) Scientific Iniciation, Fiocruz.
• Danielle Freitas (2012-2013) BSc in Statistics, UFF.
• Evandro Dalbem Lopes (2013-2013) BSc in Statistics, UFF.
• Natalia Santana Paiva (2011-2012) BSc in Statistics, UFF.
• Kiese da Silva Quiavauca (2012-2012) BSc in Statistics, UFF.
• Natália Santana Paiva (2010-2011) Scientific Iniciation, UFF.
• Clarissa Cardoso Oesselmann (2011-2012) Scientific Iniciation, UFF
• Fabiano Oliveira Campos (2006-2006) BSc in Statistics, UFPR.
• Moisés Marcus Retka (2006-2006) BSc in Statistics, UFPR.

Google scholar colaborarion network

My colaborarion network according to Google scholar (using scholar package)

library(scholar)

# My google scholar id
id <- "A5VmZYMAAAAJ"
# p <- get_publications(id)

coauthor_network <- get_coauthors(id, n_coauthors = 6)

plot_coauthors(coauthor_network)

## Warning: Removed 6 rows containing missing values or
## values outside the scale range
## (`geom_point()`).