I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a member of the Probability Group IM-UFRJ

Prior to joining UFRJ:  

• Post-doctoral researcher at the Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil - 2014-2017

• Senior Research Assistant at the School of Electronic and Computer Science of  the University of Southampton, United Kingdom - 2013

• Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - 2012

• PhD in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands - 2012  

My current research revolves primarily around Probability and its connections with Statistics, Computer Science, and Network Science. In particular, I am interested in the mathematical modeling of random processes on networks

Rodrigo Alves, Valmir  Barbosa, Rocco De Nicola, János Englander,  Aernout van Enter, Daniel Figueiredo,  Sandro Gallo,  Christof Külske, Dario Madeo, Chiara Mocenni, Giovanni Neglia, Igor Nunes,  Roberto Oliveira, Guilherme Ost, Gábor Pete, Bruce Reed, Rodrigo Ribeiro, Seva Shneer, Siamak Taati, Daniel Takahashi, Mirco Tribastone, Glauco Valle,  Andrea Vandin, Leonel Zuaznabar

• Maiara Gripp de Souza (PhD), 05/2022 - , co-advised with Guilherme Ost

• Vitor Martins Gouvêa (Undergraduate - IC), 09/2024 - 

Former students

• Ismael Sampaio Bastos (Msc), 01/2024 - 05/2025

• Jorge Oscar Berlanga Saez (MSc), 01/2024 - 03/2025

• Thiago Henrique Neves Coelho (Msc), 10/2023 - 02/2025, co-advised with Daniel Figueiredo

• Milena Naomy Laburu (Undergraduate - IC), 10/2023 - 08/2024

• Pablo Alves Muniz (Undergraduate - IC),  01/2021 - 05/2023  

• José Victor Pereira Fuks (Undergraduate - IC), 10/2021 - 12/2022 

• Igor Torres da Costa (Undergraduate - IC), 01/2022 -12/2022

• Rodrigo Barreto Alves (PhD), 08/2019 - 05/2022, co-advised with Glauco Valle

• Maiara Gripp de Souza (MSc), 03/2021 - 04/2022, co-advised with Guilherme Ost

• João Pedro Mangi (Undergraduate - IC), 02/2020 - 10/2020

• Igor de Oliveira Nunes (MSc), 03/2018 - 07/2020, co-advised with Daniel Figueiredo

• Danielle Alves Castelo Branco da Silva (MSc),  03/2017 - 03/2020,  co-advised with Daniel Figueiredo

• Guilherme da Costa Sales (MSc), 03/2017 - 03/2019, co-advised with Daniel Figueiredo

• João Vitor Barbosa Tavares (MSc), 03/2016 - 04/2018, co-advised with Daniel Figueiredo