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I am an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil since 2011. In 2019-2020 I was a research fellow at the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit (AS&RU), University of Warwick, UK. Currently, I am a CNPq Productivity Fellow and a 'Cientista do Nosso Estado' Fellow (FAPERJ). For the period 2022-2024, I was a member of the board of directors of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). 

I finished my PhD in 2010 at the University of Warwick (UK) with a thesis entitled "On flexible modelling of spatiotemporal processes", supervised by Prof Mark Steel. 

Papers published from this thesis: 

• Non-Gaussian spatiotemporal modelling through scale mixing (Biometrika, 2011);

• A general class of nonseparable space–time covariance models (Environmetrics, 2011).

I completed my undergraduate studies (January 2004) in the Department of Statistics at UFRJ. My final project was on Mixture Models using latent variables. After that, I completed my MSc at UFRJ in June 2004 with a dissertation entitled "Bayesian Reference analysis for the Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions".

Papers published from this dissertation: 

• Objective Bayesian analysis for the Student-t regression model (Biometrika, 2008);

• Bayesian analysis based on the Jeffreys prior for the hyperbolic distribution (Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2012).