(Faculty) My scientific career is heavily based on the interface between psychology and statistics, with more than 40 published peer-reviewed manuscripts. My studies aim at (a) modeling psychological processes through computational statistics and (b) developing, refining, and extending evaluation methods in psychology and neuroscience. For the first, I am implementing traditional and innovative models to better understand the relationships among observed and latent variables using state-of-art latent variable methods, including multidimensional and/or multilevel item response theory models, structural equation modeling, and Bayesian statistics. For the second, I’m leading a multistage study to develop new psychological and neuropsychological tests. Teaching is an important part of my career and I have a diverse range of teaching experience in applied statistics and psychometrics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I’m fluent in R, Mplus, and I am a Python user. I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Institute of Neuropsychology and Behavior.