March 2020, March 2021: Visiting researcher at the Regensburg University, Germany
January - March 2022: visiting researcher at the Leiden University, The Netherlands
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021: predoctoral fellowship at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Institution (USA)
2021 - 2023 - MBA in Data Science and Analytics (USP)
Title: How to get the most out of forest data? Disentangling tree demography with multilevel models
2015 - 2017 - MBA in Environmental Management, USP
Title: Socio-economic factors and native vegetation cover on rural properties in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
2007 - 2009 - Ms. in Ecology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Title: Spatial and activity patterns of the water opossum Chironectes minimus in Atlantic Forest rivers in southeastern Brazil
2003 - 2007 - B.S. in Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Title: Ecology and conservation of the water opossum, Chironectes minimus, in Atlantic Forest rivers in the São João River Basin, Rio de Janeiro State.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Teacher and co-creator of the course "Best Practices and Open Science Tools for Ecology" for graduate students at the Graduate Program for Ecology, Biosciences Inst (USP). Block course, 1 week (30h). - Teacher in the course Introduction to R for enviromental consultancy (in Portuguese) in 2016. - Teaching Assistant at the graduate course R Language for Ecological Data Analysis IB-USP (2011 to 2018, 2023). - Teaching Assistant at the graduate course Design, Planning and Data Analysis in Ecology IB-USP (2018) - Teaching Assistant at the undergraduate course Virtual Ecology IB-USP (2015 and 2017) - Guest instructor at the Atlantic Forest Field Course (graduate course) IB-USP (2015) - Guest teacher in field course Invertebrate Zoology and Ecology undergraduate field course at the Federal Institute of Education in Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) (2011 and 2012) - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at undergraduate course at the Biology Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ): Ecology (2005, two semesters), Animal Ecology (2006), Vertebrate Zoology (2006)
- ABECO - Associação Brasileira de Ciência Ecológica e Conservação (Brazilian Association for Ecological Science and Conservation) (2020 - now) - SBPC - Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science) (2020 - now) - BES - British Ecological Society (2020 to 2022) - SORTEE - Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2021-now). SORTEE Member Voices: Melina Leite.
COURSES
Graduate courses:
Machine learning and AI in TensorFlow and R (2020)
Model based multivariate analysis of abundance data using R (2018)
Meta-analysis (2018)
Individual Based Models (2018)
Generalized linear models (2018)
Multivariate analysis (2018)
Time Series Analysis (2017)
Mixed Models and Applications (2016)
Multivariate Analysis for Environmental Science (2016)
Meta-ecology (2015)
Academic Writing (2014)
Bayesian Models in Ecology (2014)
Statistical Models in Population Ecology (2013)
Statistical Modeling for Ecology (2012)
Advanced Topics in R Language (2011)
R Language for Ecological Data Analysis (2011)
Environmental and Scientific Photography (2008)
Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments (2008)