I am a tenured Assistant Professor of the Department of Statistics/Institute of Mathematics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro based in Brazil. Since July 2020 I am a member of the Actuarial Science Postgraduate Diploma Programme and since March 2021 I am a staff member of the Postgraduate Research Programme in Statistics at UFRJ. Also, since July 2019 I am a member of the Laboratório de Matemática Aplicada at UFRJ (LabMA/UFRJ) responsible for developing the life tables for the Brazilian insurance market. For the period 2025-2027, I am a member of the Board of Directors of ISBrA, the Brazilian Chapter of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).
Currently, I am the chair of the BSc Actuarial Science programme. Also, I am vice-chair of the Actuarial Science Postgraduate Diploma Programme.
I hold a PhD degree in Statistics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro where I also have completed my master’s . During my master's, I was supervised by Dr. Thais C O Fonseca and my research was about Bayesian residual analysis for spatially correlated data and can be accessed here. Throughout my doctoral research, I was supervised by Dr. Thais C O Fonseca and Professor Fernando A S Moura. My thesis is about Bayesian cross-validation of geostatistical models and can be accessed here.
My main research interests are Bayesian inference, Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal processes, Actuarial modelling and Mortality forecast.
Grants
JCNE/FAPERJ E_09/2025 - Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado (FAPERJ)
AVL 2023/UFRJ - Programa de Apoio a Docente Recém Doutor
BSc Actuarial Science programme contact:
e-mail: coord DOT atuaria AT im DOT ufrj DOT br
Personal contact:
e-mail : viviana AT dme DOT ufrj DOT br
professional address: Cidade Universitária - Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149 , CT
office C109-A - phone: +55 21 3938-7411
Lattes CV:
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7189046940474957
