Welcome!

I am Adjunct Professor at Department of Plant Sciences at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, 2022 - today). My main research interests are related to Plant Breeding and Experimental Statistics, with emphasis on the development of methods for stability analysis in plant breeding trials.

I’m an active member of the International Biometric Society (IBS), and Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding (SBMP). I’m also a member of the Young Researchers Committee of the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society, (JP-RBras) representing the states of RS, SC, and PR.

In my CV, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific production are analysis of multi-environment trials, multivariate indexes, confidence interval for correlation, design of experiments, indirect selection, genotype-vs-environment interaction, mixed models, and genetic parameters.

I have some experience with well-known statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, Statistica, GEA-R, and Gênes, but since my Ph.D. I have dedicated my efforts to R programming. I’ve been working on the development of the R packages metan, designed for checking, manipulating, summarizing, analyzing, and plotting multi-environment trial data, and pliman, designed for analyzing plant images.

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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