Christian Eduardo Galarza Morales

Christian is actually a professor in the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at his alma mater, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - ESPOL, in his native city, Guayaquil - Ecuador. He obtained his PhD in Statistics degree in 2020, from the State University of Campinas, UNICAMP - Brazil, where he obtained his Master in Statistics degree as well. As a FAPESP fellow he had the opportunity to work at University of Connecticut, UCONN - USA during one year (Oct 2018-2019) as a research scholar. Chris got his undergraduate degree in Statistics at ESPOL in 2012. He considers himself an enthusiastic researcher whose initial works have allowed him to win several national and international awards, in addition to the opportunity to spread his research at conferences around the world. Today, Christian is a referee for several high-impact scientific journals, elected member of the ISI, member of Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) at Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2020 young ambassador of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) to the IBC and author of 15 R packages. Furthermore, he has visited 30 countries, attending around 50 congresses, 35 oral contributions, 15 invited lectures, 1 session chair, 2 posters and 3 short courses taught. His Statistical interests areas are quantile regression, linear/nonlinear mixed-effects models, EM and SAEM algorithms, zero-quantile distributions, scale mixture of skew normal distributions and censored and zero-inflated models. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)