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Alejandro C. Frery was born in Mendoza, Argentina, on 21 February 1960. In 1983, he received a B.Sc. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Mendoza. His M.Sc. degree was in Applied Mathematics (Statistics) from the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, 1990), and his Ph.D. degree was in Applied Computing from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE, S?o José dos Campos, Brazil, 1993). In 2007, he made a Postdoctoral stay of six months at IMPA. In 2017, he spent two months with the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou) under the President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI). 

Since 2003, he has been a full professor at the Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil. He has held a “Huashan Scholar” position at Xidian University, Xi’an, China, since 2019. He was the University Vice-Chancellor for Research, Graduate Courses, and Innovation from January 2016 to January 2020. Currently licensed from Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Since May 2020, he has been a Statistics and Data Science Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 

After serving as Associate Editor for over five years, Prof. Frery was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters from 2014 to 2018. He was an IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2019. In 2018, he received the IEEE GRSS Regional Leader Award. He served as this Society’s AdCom (Advisory Committee) member, in charge of Future Publications, Plagiarism and Regional Symposia from 2019 to 2022. Since 2023, he has been the Vice-President of Publications. 

His research interests are data visualisation, statistical computing, and stochastic modelling, with signal and image processing and networks applications.