I give private courses/lessons (in person or by video call) in Portuguese, English and Spanish. I also teach public courses worldwide:
Upcoming courses:
Interactive maps with R. Physalia Courses, live online short course, 22-23 Jun 2023
Species occurrence data download and cleaning with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 3-4 Jul 2023
Introducción a los modelos de nicho ecológico [in Spanish] (with Neftalí Sillero). Transmitting Science, live online course, 6-14 Jul 2023
Evaluating and validating species distribution models with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 18-19 Jul 2022
Mapas y operaciones espaciales (SIG) con R [in Spanish]. Transmitting Science, live online course, 24-28 Jul 2023
Species distribution modelling with Bayesian statistics in R. PR Statistics, live online course, 4-8 Sep 2023
Species distribution models and fuzzy logic: Combining model predictions into threshold-free estimates of diversity and change (with Alba Estrada). Transmitting Science, live online short course, 3 and 5 Oct 2023
Species distribution and ecological niche modelling in R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 18-22 Sep 2023
Mapping and spatial operations in R: using R as a GIS. Physalia Courses, live online course, 30 Oct – 3 Nov 2023
Past teaching:
Environmental variables: how to download and process them with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 1-2 Jun 2023
Mapping and spatial operations in R: using R as a GIS. Physalia Courses, live online course, 3-7 Apr 2023
Species distribution and ecological niche modelling in R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 13-17 Mar 2023
Mapping and spatial operations in R: using R as a GIS. Physalia Courses, live online course,27 Fev – 3 Mar 2023
Advanced ecological niche modelling (with Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Pedro Tarroso and Urtzi Enríquez Urzelai). Doctoral Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics & Evolution, Porto University (Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal), 13-17 Feb 2023
Modelos de distribución de especies con estadística bayesiana en R [in Spanish] Transmitting Science, live online course, 30 Jan – 3 Feb 2023
Environmental variable download and processing with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 12-13 Dec 2022
Species occurrence data download and cleaning with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 28-29 Nov 2022
Interactive maps with R. Physalia Courses, live online short course, 21-22 Nov 2022
Mapas y operaciones espaciales (SIG) con R [in Spanish]. Transmitting Science, live online course, 14-18 Nov 2022
Introduction to ecological niche modelling (with Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Pedro Tarroso and Urtzi Enríquez Urzelai). Doctoral Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics & Evolution, Porto University (Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal), 7-9 Nov 2022
Species distribution and ecological niche modelling in R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 17-21 Oct 2022
Introducción a los modelos de nicho ecológico [in Spanish] (with Neftalí Sillero). Transmitting Science, live online course, 3-7 Oct 2022
Species distribution modelling with Bayesian statistics in R. PR Statistics, live online course, 26-30 Sep 2022
Mapping and spatial operations in R: using R as a GIS. Physalia Courses, live online course, 12-16 Sep 2022
Evaluating and validating species distribution models with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 18-19 May 2022
Species distribution and ecological niche modelling in R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 9-13 May 2022
Species distribution models and fuzzy logic: Combining model predictions into threshold-free estimates of diversity and change (with Alba Estrada). Transmitting Science, live online short course, 26-27 Apr 2022
Environmental variables: how to download and process them with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 6-7 Apr 2022
Mapping and spatial analysis in R: using R as a GIS. Physalia Courses, live online course, 28 Mar – 1 Apr 2022
Modelos de distribución de especies con estadística bayesiana en R [in Spanish] Transmitting Science, live online course, 21-25 Mar 2022
Species occurrence data download and cleaning with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 10-11 Mar 2022
Ecological niche modelling — from theory to practice (with Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Pedro Tarroso and Urtzi Enríquez Urzelai). Doctoral Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics & Evolution, Porto University (Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal), 7-11 Feb 2021
Mapas y análisis espacial (SIG) con R [in Spanish]. Transmitting Science, live online course, 24-28 Jan 2022
Species distribution modelling with Bayesian statistics in R. PR Statistics, live online course, 6-10 Dec 2021
Environmental variables: how to obtain and process them with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 22-23 Nov 2021
Evaluating and validating species distribution models with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 3-4 Nov 2021
Introducción a los modelos de nicho ecológico [in Spanish] (with Neftalí Sillero). Transmitting Science, live online course, 25-29 Oct 2021
Species distribution and ecological niche modelling in R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 11-15 Oct 2021
Mapping and spatial analysis in R: using R as a GIS. Physalia Courses, live online course, 20 – 24 Sep 2021
Obtaining and processing environmental variables with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 9-10 Sep 2021
Obtaining and cleaning species occurrence data with R. Transmitting Science, live online short course, 1-2 Sep 2021
Mapas y análisis espacial (SIG) con R [in Spanish]. Transmitting Science, live online course, 24-28 May 2021
Species distribution modelling with Bayesian statistics in R. PR Statistics, live online course, 17-21 May 2021
Species distribution and ecological niche modelling in R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 10-14 May 2021
Species distributions: modelling uncertainty using fuzzy logic (with Alba Estrada). Transmitting Science, live online course, 12-16 Apr 2021
Take your species distribution models to the next level with Bayesian nonparametric regression. International Biogeography Society, live online workshop, 29-30 Mar 2021 — BOOKED UP leading to two additional dates: 31 Mar – 1 Apr, and 6-7 Apr
Mapping and spatial analysis (GIS) with R. Physalia Courses, live online course, 15-19 Mar 2021
Introducción a los modelos de nicho ecológico (with Neftalí Sillero). Transmitting Science, live online course [in Spanish], 1-5 Mar 2021
Mapas y análisis espacial (SIG) con R [in Spanish]. Transmitting Science, live online course, 23-27 Nov 2020
Species distribution modelling with Bayesian statistics in R. PR Statistics, live online course, 9-13 Nov 2020
Introducción a los modelos de nicho ecológico [in Spanish] (with Neftalí Sillero). Transmitting Science, live online course, 3-7 Aug 2020
Mapas y análisis espacial (SIG) con R [in Spanish]. Transmitting Science, live online course, 22-26 Jun 2020
Mapping and spatial analysis (GIS) with R. Physalia Courses (Berlin, Germany) [converted to live online course due to the COVID-19 pandemic], 20-24 Apr 2020
Ecological niche modelling — from theory to practice (with Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Pedro Tarroso and Urtzi Enríquez Urzelai). Doctoral Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics & Evolution, Porto University (Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal), 17-21 Feb 2020
Dealing with uncertainty in species distributions: fuzzy modelling and fuzzy comparisons (with Alba Estrada). Transmitting Science, Sabadell (Barcelona – Spain), 21-24 Oct 2019
Ecological niche models in R (with Sara Varela). Physalia Courses (Berlin, Germany), 20-24 May 2019
Modelos de distribución de especies: conceptos, métodos y aplicaciones [in Spanish]. Máster Universitario en Sostenibilidad Ambiental en el Desarrollo Local y Territorial, UCLM (Toledo, Spain), 8-12 Apr 2019
Ecological niche modelling from theory to practice (with Fernando Martínez-Freiría and Pedro Tarroso). Doctoral Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics & Evolution, Porto University (Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal), 11-15 Feb 2019
Fuzzy logic in biogeography (with Jesús Olivero and Raimundo Real). Workshop at the International Biogeography Society meeting (Málaga, Spain), 8 Jan 2019
Ecological niche modelling from theory to practice (with Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Pedro Tarroso and Sara Varela). Doctoral Programme in Biodiversity, Genetics & Evolution, Porto University (Vairão – Vila do Conde, Portugal), 18-22 Jun 2018
Introduction to data analysis in ecology with R (with Sara M. Santos and J. Tiago Marques) [in Portuguese]. MSc in Conservation Biology, Évora University (Portugal): 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Selección de variables, construcción y evaluación de modelos de distribución de especies con los paquetes R fuzzySim y modEvA [in Spanish]. Global Online Seminar Series in Biodiversity Informatics, CONABIO/UNAM, 13 Mar 2017
Model evaluation and thresholds. Invited lecture within the “Course on Species Distribution Modelling”, Évora (Portugal): 2016 and 2017.
Concepts and methods in species distribution modelling. MSc in Conservation Biology, Évora University (Portugal): 2011 and 2012.
Species distributions and ecological niches. Seminars within the PhD in Biology, Évora University (Portugal): 2011 and 2012.
Practicals in Marine Ecology (assistant), Imperial College at Guernsey: 2008.
Prácticas de Zoología. Extremadura University (Cáceres, Spain): 2006 and 2007.
Prácticas de Zoología. Málaga University (Spain): 2001 to 2006.
Other training:
5 MSc theses successfully supervised.
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