Flavio holds a BSc. degree in Statistics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2004), a MSc. degree in Statistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006) and a PhD. in Statistics from the University of Warwick (2011). He is currently on a research leave at EMAp-FGV from his positions as an associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Holds a CNPq level 1B research grant. Has experience in the area of Probability and Statistics, with emphasis on Bayesian Statistics, working mainly on the following topics: Inference in Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Simulation, Computational Statistics, Geostatistics, Item Response Theory and Mathematical Statistics. He has been invited as a plenary speaker in scientific conferences. Visiting researcher at the Statistics Department of the University of Warwick in several occasions. Collaborates with researchers from Brazil and abroad. Has published papers in Statistical journals such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B and C, Biometrika, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Statistics and Computing.

Areas of interest: