I’ve been less active around here but for good reasons. I’ve been procrastinating busy with other things. Here’s a summary. This past year, I:

1. Proudly saw two of my students finish their PhD and Master degrees. I also started co-supervising my first undergraduate student 🎓

2. Published 10 papers 🥳 and had at least 5 desk rejections lol 🥸

3. Proposed two new accessibility metrics ( here and here)

4. Crossed the mark of 7K citations and got listed among top 2% cited scientists in the world for three consecutive years

5. Published one book 📘 in both English and Portuguese. My first online book written in R with Quarto 🤓 I also singed the contract of another book (co-authored with wonderful colleagues) and which will be published by CRC Press

6. Published 8 working papers / reports

7. Published one editorial of the first special issue I co-edited (in great company)

8. Started co-editing another special issue

9. Co-organized a workshop at an international conference

10. Created 3 R packages and one Twitter bot

11. The r5r package crossed the mark of 700K downloads, and all our packages have together crossed 1 million downloads 👯‍♀️

12. Became a member of the National Consultative Committee on Urban Mobility in Brazil

13. Became a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Transport Geography

14. Became Head of Data Science at Ipea

15. Presented at over 16 events (seminars, conferences etc), including 2 keynote presentations

16. Peer-reviewed 8 papers. This is down from 17 and 16 I did in 2022 and 2021, but for a very good reason!

17. By far, the most remarkable of all events this year was the arrival of my daughter. Becoming a father is definitely one of the most important and joyful life changes I’ve ever had.

I have some really exciting plans for 2024. Can’t wait to see what’s ahead.

Happy 2024, everyone !!!