Research

Research Groups

Leader of the CNPq research group “Estatística e Ciência de Dados” (Statistics and Data Science), recognized by the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since November 2019)
Member of the CNPq research group “Séries Temporais. Estudos Univariados e Multivariados” (Univariate and multivariate time series), recognized by the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil (since September 2019)
Leader of the CNPq research group “Bioestatística e Big Data” (Biostatistics and Big Data), recognized by the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (July 2014 – November 2018)

Research Director of CAST – Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, from April 2015 to December 2019
Research Associate of the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (CMA, Research Center of Mathematics and Applications) of Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, 2012–2015; Member of the research group on “Mathematical modeling in Ecology, Evolution and Genetics” 2014–2015
Researcher of the Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon 2005-2012 Member of the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (CMA, Research Center of Mathematics and Applications) of Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, 2005–2012

Time series and singular spectrum analysis
High-dimensional data modeling, low-rank approximations and weighted low-rank approximations
Modelling and analyse Genotype-by-Environment interactions and QTL-by-Environment interactions
Robust statistics
Big data and visualization
Applications to plant sciences, genetics, finances and environmental sciences