Luiz Alexandre Peternelli

Bachelor's in Agronomy from Federal University of Viçosa (UFV - 1988), Masters in Genetics and Breeding (UFV - 1992), and Ph.D. in Statistics and Plant Breeding (Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA - 1999). Sabbatical leave at Michigan State University (2006) in the area of Advanced Statistical Methods Applied to Plant Breeding, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2012-1013) in the field of Statistical Genetics and Genomics, and at Virginia Polytechnic and State University (2019-2020) in the field of Statistical Learning Models. He was Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at UFV from mach/2015 to may/2019. He is currently a Full Professor and researcher of the Sugarcane Breeding Program at UFV. He is a scientific reviewer of several national and international journals and funding agencies consultant. He has experience in Applied Probability and Statistics, with an emphasis in Statistics, acting on the following subjects: Mixed Models, experimental design, stochastic simulation, sugarcane, plant breeding and genomic selection, prediction models for NIR data, and Statistical Learning.