Hello, I am Kaique Alves!
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I am a D.Sc candidate in Plant Pathology at Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil and Visiting scholar at Cornell Agritech in the US.
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I am deeply interested in plant disease epidemiology. I am really into the quantitative aspects of epidemics, such as epidemiological models, stochastic simulations, and using modern statistical approaches to link environmental features to disease intensity and occurrence.
Background
My background is in quantitative plant disease epidemiology and applied statistics in agriculture. During my undergraduate as an Agronomy student I had the opportunity to work with plant pathologists, engineers, and mathematicians, from whom I got inspired to work with epidemics. During my graduate (M.Sc and D.Sc) at Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) I focused on delving into plant pathology and learning more about epidemiology. I got enveloped in research projects on the epidemiology of several important plant diseases, such as citrus Huanglongbing, soybean rust, Fusarium head blight, Wheat Blast, and white mold. Although I had the chance to learn a little bit about programming during my undergraduate, during graduate school was when I really developed this skill. Today I am an avid R user!
Personal
I enjoy playing and watching computer games. I am also really into watching movies and TV shows. Recently I started cycling, which was a challenge in the beginning, but now is one of my favorite outdoor activities.