Serrapilheira presents Quantitative Ecology course at IMPA Tech
Undergraduate students can follow the training on a voluntary basis
After classes on Thursday (13), the Serrapilheira Institute presented the Training in Quantitative Ecology 2026 to the students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics of Technology and Innovation. Camila Teicher, program director, chatted with the young people and invited them to take part in the course’s activities on a voluntary basis.
The training, which has been held annually since 2021, will have a novelty in this 6th edition: the theoretical training meetings will be held in the classrooms of IMPA Tech, in the port area of Rio de Janeiro. Undergraduate students will be able to follow the activities, interacting with the speakers and participants.
“This opening to you, IMPA Tech students, is a free sample of what the program is all about. We want to encourage you to think about ecology as a possible field of study,” said Camila. The free course begins on January 5th. Thirty young people from all over Brazil, including biologists, geologists, oceanographers, mathematicians, etc., were selected through a call for applications.
Training in Quantitative Ecology is an interdisciplinary program that integrates different areas of knowledge to address major questions in ecology. Mathematical modeling, remote sensing, ecological data and statistics and machine learning are some of the topics covered in the courses.
The program is aimed at students in the pre-doctoral stages – in the last semester of their undergraduate or master’s degree – from all areas of knowledge. The proposal is to provide exchanges and unprecedented studies. “We’re making an effort to attract people from other areas, such as mathematicians and physicists. For the course to be successful, we need a very interdisciplinary group,” said Camila.
In this sense, the choice of IMPA Tech to host part of the course was strategic. “A place that is training mathematicians, with this perspective of different professional possibilities, fits very well with our proposal. In the future, we also want these young people to be able to participate fully in the activities,” he explained.
The Serrapilheira Institute is a private, non-profit organization that promotes science in Brazil. It was created in 2017 to value scientific knowledge and increase its visibility, helping to build a scientifically informed society. In addition to Quantitative Ecology Training, Serrapilheira has programs to support Science and Journalism & Media.
