Agronomist by Federal University of Lavras. MSc and PhD in Genetics and Breeding by the same institution. PhD in Genetic Statistics by ESALQ, USP. Former researcher by Biostatistics Unit at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), working on quantitative genetics, statistical genomics, and machine learning applied to plant and animal breeding.
ORCID Publications
- Diallel analysis of elephantgrass clones for bioenergy production in a tropical environment — 2026
- Impact of genotyping platform and quality control on genomic prediction accuracy of soybean oil composition — 2026
- Bayesian probabilistic selection index in the selection of common bean families — 2025
- Application of linear mixed models to overcome challenges of unbalanced data in common bean breeding — 2025
- Incorporating spatial and genetic competition into breeding pipelines with the R package gencomp — 2025
- Enhancing population and family selection accuracy with statistical genetics models accounting for epistatic effects for wheat breeding — 2025
- Using soybean historical field trial data to study genotype by environment variation and identify mega‐environments with the integration of genetic and non‐genetic factors — 2025
- Single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictions of sugarcane genotype performance — 2025
- Stage-wise selection of tropical wheat populations using univariate and multivariate BLUP models — 2025
- Statistical genetics models with residual and genetic structures enhance the accuracy of selecting wheat populations — 2025