Academic background: Beatriz Milz holds a PhD in Environmental Science. She is a researcher interested in topics such as water resources management, transparency and open data, environmental data science, and gender and the environment. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) from 2024 to 2025. She currently works as an independent consultant on data science, research and R teaching projects.
Scientific journals: Since 2018, she has been part of the executive team of the journal Ambiente & Sociedade. Since 2024, she has been a Software peer review editor at rOpenSci, and she is also part of the executive team of the Revista Diálogos Socioambientais.
Teaching: She is a certified tidyverse instructor by RStudio. She has experience teaching R in courses at Curso-R, at cebrap.lab, and in the Summer Program at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME) – University of São Paulo (USP).
Communities: Since 2018, she has been a co-organizer of R-Ladies São Paulo. She is also a GitHub Star, a recognition by GitHub for individuals who are technical experts and community leaders who share their knowledge. As of 04/09/2024, there were only 73 GitHub Stars worldwide, and only 8 of them in Brazil.