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I’ve been less active around here but for good reasons. I’ve been procrastinating busy with other things. Here’s a summary. This past year, I:
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Proudly saw two of my students finish their PhD and Master degrees. I also started co-supervising my first undergraduate student 🎓
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Published 10 papers 🥳 and had at least 5 desk rejections lol 🥸
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Crossed the mark of 7K citations and got listed among top 2% cited scientists in the world for three consecutive years
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Published one book 📘 in both
English and
Portuguese. My first online book written in R with Quarto 🤓 I also singed the contract of another book (co-authored with wonderful colleagues) and which will be published by CRC Press -
Published 8 working papers / reports
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Published one editorial of
the first special issue I co-edited (in great company) -
Started co-editing
another special issue -
Co-organized a workshop at an international conference
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Created 3
R packages and one Twitter bot -
The
r5r package crossed the mark of 700K downloads, and all our packages have together crossed 1 million downloads 👯♀️ -
Became a member of the National Consultative Committee on Urban Mobility in Brazil
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Became a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Transport Geography
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Became Head of Data Science at Ipea
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Presented at over 16 events (seminars, conferences etc), including 2 keynote presentations
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Peer-reviewed 8 papers. This is down from 17 and 16 I did in 2022 and 2021, but for a very good reason!
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By far, the most remarkable of all events this year was the arrival of my daughter. Becoming a father is definitely one of the most important and joyful life changes I’ve ever had.
I have some really exciting plans for 2024. Can’t wait to see what’s ahead.
Happy 2024, everyone !!!
ps. I was quite reluctant in writing this post because some people may see it as too self-congratulatory. It is a bit, but from time to time we need to do this to shake our imposter syndrome off, so I think it’s Ok.
ps2. Today I received an email I had sent myself 3 years ago, with questions and reflections I had about my life and the plans I had back then. Got a bit emotional 🥰 . It’s amazing how in only 3 years some things change completely and others do not change at all.