“We’re already in March 2025, and only now this guy is posting about his highlights of 2024?!". Yes, and I hope it’s not too late lol.

• I’ve started a Bousfield Visiting Professor position (2024-2025) at the Geography and Planning Department at the University of Toronto
• We received the David Levinson Best Paper Award at the 2024 WSTLUR (World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research) for the paper ‘Ride-hailing and transit accessibility considering the trade-off between time and money’
• Peer-reviewed 13 papers
• Published 6 papers and got a number of desk rejections that I lost count.
• Finished 4 working papers, one of which had a major role in helping the Brazilian government react to the mass floodings in the south of the country
• Our book on Introduction to Urban Accessibility got to be a Finalist of the Academic Jabuti Award
• One new R package
• We welcomed new colleagues and RAs in our team at Ipea
• I got listed among the top 2% cited scientists in the world for in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by Stanford & Elsevier. Full list here
• Graduated one masters student
• I had a great time teaching four workshops at academic conferences and one at the EIT Doctoral Training Network Annual Forum
• Delivered invited lectures at MIT, Cornell, UFRJ, University of Twente, UFC, FGV
• Delivered one Keynote at the annual AGILE conference
• For the first time, I applied to acadmic jobs. Three in fact. Never heard from one, got short listed in another and went the full experience in the third one. The good news, I got accepted at the Department of Urban Planning at Berkeley. The bad news, I got 2nd in the selection and there was one spot only. Bittersweet.
• Hands down, the peak of 2024 really was taking my daughter to swimming classes

ps. procratinating Writting this list down has not helped me cope with imposter syndrome.