Rodolfo Jaffé
Belém, Pará, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRodolfo Jaffé is an ecologist and biodiversity specialist with over fifteen years of international research and consulting experience, currently on secondment at Amazon and serving as Managing Consultant at Ramboll. He combines rigorous fieldwork across four continents with advanced data science—spatial analysis, genetics/genomics, modelling, statistics, and machine learning—to evaluate habitat alteration, ecosystem services, and nature-based solutions. Rodolfo has led mitigation-hierarchy implementation, IFC-PS6 lender due diligence, and Natural Resource Damage Assessments for industry and legal contexts, bridging academic rigor and corporate risk management. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, is an Academic Editor for Ecological Applications, and contributed to the IPBES regional assessment for the Americas. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, he uniquely pairs molecular ecology training with practical experience restoring mangroves and integrating habitat suitability modeling into sustainable design.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology at Universidad Simón BolívarDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French
Github Skills (28)
r-package9
mumin8
proj7
spatial7
r6
geos5
leaflet5
vector4
gdal4
spatial-data4
geospatial4
terra4
gis4
categorical3
raster3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rojaff/LanGen_pipeline
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 79 pushes in 5 months
rojaff/dredge_mc
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Assess multicollinearity between predictors when running the dredge function (MuMIn - R)
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 8 months
assessmuminpredictors
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