A summary of my 2023, and happy 2024

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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:

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   Proudly saw two of my students finish their PhD and Master degrees. I also started co-supervising my first undergraduate student
   
   
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   Published 10 papers and had at least 5 desk rejections lol
   
   
3. 
   Proposed two new accessibility metrics ( here and here)
   
   
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   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
   
   
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   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.
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Happy 2024, everyone !!!

ps. I was quite reluctant in writing this post because some people may see it as too self-congratulatory. It is a bit, but from time to time we need to do this to shake our imposter syndrome off, so I think it’s Ok.

ps2. Today I received an email I had sent myself 3 years ago, with questions and reflections I had about my life and the plans I had back then. Got a bit emotional . It’s amazing how in only 3 years some things change completely and others do not change at all.