Vanessa Di Lego
Professor Of Demography at Meios Pesquisa e Consultoria Jr.
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolVanessa Di Lego is a Professor of Demography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais with eight years of focused research and teaching experience in mortality, health, ageing and gender differentials. Her work blends formal and mathematical demography with practical estimation techniques, with a notable six-year research tenure at the Vienna Institute of Demography contributing to an ERC project on sensitivity of healthy life expectancy measures. She has substantial applied policy experience as a UNFPA consultant on ageing and gender in Brazil and BRICS contexts, producing reports used by national commissions. Vanessa teaches data science tools to demographers (R, RMarkdown, GitHub) and offers workshops that translate methodological theory into reproducible practice. Her research is distinguished by a consistent emphasis on estimation sensitivity—illuminating how measurement choices reshape conclusions about inequalities in health and mortality. Based in Minas Gerais, she combines rigorous quantitative methods with policy-relevant dissemination across academic and international organizations.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Demography and Population Studies, PhD, Demography and Population Studies at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (3)
knitr4
markdown3
bookdown3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vdilego/PHD_Selection
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
vdilego/covid19br
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Brazil
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 days
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