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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

  • PhD in Agronomy (Agricultural Experimentation), 2017-2019

    Federal University of Santa Maria

  • MSc in Agronomy (Plant Breeding), 2015-2016

    Federal University of Santa Maria

  • BSc in Agronomy, 2010-2014

    University of West Santa Catarina

Skills

R

95%

Plant Breeding

90%

Statistics

95%

Agricultural experimentation

95%

Reproducible research

95%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Adjunct Professor

UFSC

Jan 2022 – Present Florianópolis - SC

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Researching
  • University Extension
 
 
 
 
 

Professor

UFSM-FW

Jun 2021 – Jan 2022 Frederico Westphalen - RS
Professor
 
 
 
 
 

Professor

UNIDEAU

Feb 2019 – Jul 2021 Getúlio Vargas - RS
Professor of Agronomy
 
 
 
 
 

Agriculture Secretary

Cacique Doble-RS City Hall

Oct 2013 – Jan 2015 Cacique Doble - RS

Responsibilities include:

  • Development of municipal agriculture
  • Municipal environmental inspection
  • Agricultural team management
 
 
 
 
 

Sales Technical Assistant

Agrofel

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 Sananduva - RS

Responsibilities include:

  • Technical assistance to farmers
  • Crop protection sales
  • Fertilizer sales
 
 
 
 
 

Agricultural technician

Camol

Jan 2008 – May 2012 Cacique Doble - RS

Responsibilities include:

  • Technical assistance to farmers
  • Inventory control

Projects

Active projects including R packages, books and indexes for analysis in plant breeding trials

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Introdução ao Software R [PT-BR]

Software R para avaliação de dados experimentais - Um foco em experimentos agronômicos

Multivariate index for analysis of biological experiments

The MGIDI index can be used to an effective multivariate selection in biological experiments, which is included (but not limited to) genotype selection in plant breeding and treatment recomendation in (un)replicated experiments.

R package metan

An R package for multi-environment trial analysis

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