Adjunct Professor
UFSC
Welcome!
Agricultural Engineer (2014), MSc in Agronomy (2017), and PhD in Agronomy with emphasis on Plant Breeding and Experimental Statistics (2020) from the Federal University of Santa Maria. Currently, I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Crop Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), where I lead the Flax Breeding Program within NEPEM/UFSC. My research focuses on Experimental Statistics, Biometry, and High-throughput Phenotyping applied to Plant Breeding. I also serve as Associate Editor of Ciência Rural and the Brazilian Journal of Biometrics.
I am the developer and maintainer of the R packages metan, dedicated to the analysis, visualization, and reporting of multi-environment trials; pliman, designed for plant image analysis, disease quantification, and object measurement; and plimanshiny, a Shiny application that extends pliman with a user-friendly graphical interface for high-throughput phenotyping. In 2024, Elsevier ranked me among the 12 most influential researchers at UFSC in the year of 2023.
Interests
- Agricultural Experimentation
- Agricultural experiments
- Plant Breeding
- Reproducible research
- R packages
- Statistics
Education
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PhD in Agronomy (Agricultural Experimentation), 2017-2019
Federal University of Santa Maria
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MSc in Agronomy (Plant Breeding), 2015-2016
Federal University of Santa Maria
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BSc in Agronomy, 2010-2014
University of West Santa Catarina
