Vitor Freitas Gomes
 Postdoctoral Researcher
 vitor.freitasgomes@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3855-5584  | 
Bioinformatics, Ecology, Programming Languages, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Conservation, Species Distribution Modeling, R, Global Change, Amazonia.
Member of the Amazon Research Group of the University of Turku and member of the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN).
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences (UFPA - 2018) awarded 'with honors', including a sandwich period at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, Netherlands); Master in Local Development and Management (UFPA - 2012) and Bachelor in Data Processing (CESUPA - 2005). Winner of the 2019 CAPES Thesis Award in Environmental Sciences. 
I am an environmental and data scientist interested in understanding how species diversity and distribution respond to global change. 
Docent at the Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Biological Sciences Program - Tropical Botany; and at Centro Universitário do Pará (CESUPA), Computer Science Program.
- A descoberta da flora arbórea da Amazônia com uma lista atualizada de todos os taxa arbóreos conhecidos  (2017)  
- Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais
 
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Estimating species richness in hyper‐diverse large tree communities  (2017)  
- Ecology
 
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) 



