Alessandro Samuel-rosa
Teacher & Researcher at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlessandro Samuel-rosa is a teacher and researcher at UTFPR-Santa Helena with 11 years' experience applying quantitative methods to soil science and digital soil mapping. His work blends pedometrics, geostatistics, multivariate statistics and machine learning to optimize spatial sampling, select environmental covariates, and calibrate predictive models. He has published internationally, collaborated with ISRIC, WUR and Embrapa, and authored three widely used R packages (pedometrics, spsann, febr) while maintaining the Free Brazilian Repository for Open Soil Data. Known for pragmatic, bottom-up approaches to open data and reproducible science, he brings both field-focused domain expertise and strong open-source engineering skills to environmental data challenges.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Secondary Education and Teaching, Bachelor's degree, Secondary Education and Teaching at Universidade Federal de Santa MariaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Soil Science and Agronomy, General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Soil Science and Agronomy, General at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
samuel-rosa/soc-methods
Oct 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
Laboratorio-de-Pedometria/SoilData-integration
Jan 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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