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Hire Nerida Nadia H.

Bolivia

PhD & Freelance Data Scientist | Specialist in Ecological Modeling, GLMM & Remote Sensing (GEE)

Profile Summary

I am a PhD in Ecology with over 10 years of experience in high-impact scientific research and complex data management. My expertise lies at the intersection of environmental science, epidemiology, and data engineering. Core Services for Research & Industry: Advanced Statistical Modeling: Expert implementation of GLMMs, regression analysis, and spatio-temporal modeling for biological and health data. Remote Sensing & GIS: Large-scale satellite imagery processing (1985–present) using Google Earth Engine (JavaScript/Python). Scientific Data Curation (ETL): Transforming messy datasets into standardized, publication-ready formats (as demonstrated in the work for Nature Scientific Data- Bolivia region). Systematic Reviews & Technical Writing: Extensive experience in synthesizing global literature for peer-reviewed publications. I help researchers and organizations overcome technical bottlenecks in their data pipelines, ensuring methodological rigor and high-quality outputs.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Image Processing
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Text Mining & Analytics
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Natural Language Processing
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Statistical Computing
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Statistical Review
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Trend Analysis
• ☆ Environmental Science
• ☆ Deforestation
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Ecosystem Management
• ☆ Applied Ecology
• ☆ Conservation Biology
• ☆ Biodiversity
• ☆ Human Ecology
• ☆ Landscape Ecology
• ☆ Risk Assessment & Actuarial Science
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Meta-Research
• ☆ Feasibility Studies
• ☆ Fact Checking
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Gap Analysis
• ☆ Gray Literature Search
• ☆ Presentation Design
• ☆ Photography & Image Editing
• ☆ Audio Production
• ☆ Skills Training
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ SOP & Protocol Writing
• ☆ Case Studies
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Traditional/Narrative Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Language Translation
• ☆ Audio Transcription

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Audio Transcription

Research Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Freelance Scientific Data Specialist

Independent / Self-employed

- Present

Independent Researcher- Data Collector

EcoHealth Alliance New York United States of America (via Subcontract / Remote Job)

August 2024 - October 2024

Graduate Researcher / Data Analyst

Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências

November 2014 - January 2018

Professor/ lecturer

Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno

March 2014 - July 2014

Laboratory technician

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Délégation Régionale Occitanie

October 2009 - December 2009

Education

Master Recherche Biodiversité, Ecologie et Environnement

Université Grenoble Alpes

- Present

Master Recherche Biodiversité Interactions Microbiennes et Parasitaires

Université Montpellier Faculté des Sciences de Montpellier

- Present

Doutorado em Ecologia (Instituto de Biociências)

Universidade de Sao Paulo Campus da Capital

November 2014 - December 2017

Biologia (Facultad de Ciencias Agricolas)

Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno

March 2004 - December 2007

Certifications

• Excel Tools for Data Analysis

  Macquarie University (Coursera)

  https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/LZ8ITU2M2X2Q

  March 2025 - Present

• Introduction to Probability and Data with R

  Duke University (Coursera)

  https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/BNZEBXCKYEPJ

  June 2024 - Present

• Postgraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity

  Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno - CRECE

  August 2023 - Present

• The Structured Query Language (SQL)

  University of Colorado Boulder (Coursera)

  https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/3LZD4MRZERQZ

  April 2023 - Present

• Scripting with Python and SQL for Data Engineering

  Duke University (Coursera)

  https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/3PMSJWPAN7YS

  April 2023 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Nerida Nadia H. Valero, Julia Rodrigues Barreto, Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Florencia Sangermano, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Benoit de Thoisy, Adrian González-Chaves, Maria Eugenia Grillet, Victoria Morpurgo-Dest, Fidel Ernesto Rodríguez Galarza, et al. (2025). Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status . Communications Earth & Environment.

Nerida Nadia H. Valero, Julia Rodrigues Barreto, Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Florencia Sangermano, Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Benoit de Thoisy, Adrian González-Chaves, Maria Eugenia Grillet, Victoria Morpurgo-Dest, Fidel Ernesto Rodríguez Galarza, et al. (2025). Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status . Communications Earth & Environment.

Nerida Nadia H. Valero and Paula Prist and Mar{\'{\i}}a Uriarte(2021). Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in São Paulo, Brazil . Science of The Total Environment. 797. p. 148960. Elsevier {BV}

(2020). Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors associated with visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic review . Parasitology Research.

Fabien Anthelme and Rosa I. Meneses and Nerida N. Huaman Valero and Paola Pozo and Olivier Dangles(2017). Fine nurse variations explain discrepancies in the stress-interaction relationship in alpine regions . Oikos. 126. (8). p. 1173--1183. Wiley

Anthelme, F., Meneses, R.I., Valero, N.N.H., Pozo, P., Dangles, O.(2017). Fine nurse variations explain discrepancies in the stress-interaction relationship in alpine regions . Oikos. 126. (8). p. 1173-1183.

Etienne Waleckx and Renata Salas and Nerida Huam{\'{a}}n and Rosio Buitrago and Marie-France Bosseno and Claudia Aliaga and Christian Barnab{\'{e}} and Roberto Rodriguez and Faustine Zoveda and Marcelo Monje and Marianne Baune and Sergio Quisberth and Erick Villena and Pierre Kengne and Fran{\c{c}}ois Noireau and Simone Fr{\'{e}}d{\'{e}}rique Breni{\`{e}}re(2011). New insights on the Chagas disease main vector Triatoma infestans (Reduviidae, Triatominae) brought by the genetic analysis of Bolivian sylvatic populations . Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 11. (5). p. 1045--1057. Elsevier {BV}