Some biographical data

I obtained a PhD in mathematics at Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1992 with the dissertation Near Ignorance Classes for Bayesian Analysis written under the supervision of Luis Raúl Pericchi. After obtaining my PhD, my research activity focused on problems on robust Bayesian inference. I have worked in problems related to model selection, meta-analysis and spatio-temporal modelling for rainfall and other environmental variables, always from a Bayesian viewpoint. My most recent work is focused on statistical analysis of climate model output and space-time models for ocean data.

I am Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the University of California Santa Cruz, where I have been part of the faculty since the Fall of 2001. I am currently the Head of the Statistics Group of AMS and Associate Chair. I was the Graduate Director of the program in Statistics and Stochastic Modeling until July 2007. I was a founding member of the Center for Statistics and Mathematical Software as well as of the Department of Scientific Computing and Statistics of Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. I worked at USB from 1987 to 2002, reaching the level of Full Professor.

I am an Associate Editor for Bayesian Analysis, and Technometrics. I have ongoing collaborations with researchers from different institutions, including MIT, NCAR, Univ. of New Mexico, LANL, LLNL, Univ. Simón Bolívar, Univ. de Lisboa and Univ. of Rio de Janeiro. I have supervised the graduate work of nine students and I am currently supervising two more.