Marcos V C Vital

Ecology, Biostats, Open Science

Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Biography

Hi! My name is Marcos, I am a Biologist and Quantitative Ecologist from Brazil, based at Universidade Federal de Alagoas (in Maceió), where I work as a Lecturer and Researcher. This website works as a small portfolio and contact page for anyone interested in my work, and will easily connect you to my academic projects, repositories, channels, blogs and everything related. ;)

For blogging, please refer to my Medium profile (mostly in Portuguese).
If you want to check out my academic publications, you can find my published papers and preprints here.
You can find some R and Biostats related stuff at my GitHub profile, and I also have a R dedicated blog (in Portuguese) right here.
Finally, if you want to check out my academic profile at Lattes platform (in Portuguese), you can find it here.

Interests

Open Science
R language and Biostatistics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Conservation Biology
Education, Active Learning and Gamification

Education

DS in Entomology, 2009

Universidade Federal de Viçosa
MS in Ecology, 2005

Universidade Federal de Goiás
BSc in Biological Sciences, 2003

Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Teaching

Regular undergrad courses at UFAL:

Biostatistics;
Biomathematics;
Ecology;

Regular grad courses at UFAL:

Experimental Design and Data Analysis in Biology;
Multivariate Statistics;

I also teach on demand courses on Biostatistics, Data Analysis and R Language.

Some material from my courses can be found on my GitHub profile.

Projects

The Open Teach-R Project: Sharing knowledge and material for teaching R courses!
Open Game tools: a list of open source tools for game creation.
Blogs de R no Brasil: a list of R blogs from Brazil (in Portuguese).
Cantinho do R: my blog about R and Biostats (in Portuguese).