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I am an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, a position I have held since 2011. I obtained my PhD in Statistics in 2010 from the University of Warwick (UK), where I completed the thesis “On Flexible Modelling of Spatiotemporal Processes” under the supervision of Prof Mark Steel.

From 2019 to 2020, I was a Research Fellow at the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit (AS&RU), University of Warwick. Between 2022 and 2024, I served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Currently, I am a CNPq Productivity Fellow and a 'Cientista do Nosso Estado' Fellow (FAPERJ).

Papers published from my PhD thesis: 

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

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

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).