Marcelo Bourguignon is an assistant professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, located in Natal (Brazil). He carried out his doctoral studies (2011-2014) at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. His studies were related to fatigue life models and count time series. He has recently won the “2017 ISI Jan Tinbergen Award,” a biennial award, named after the famous Dutch econometrician, recognize best papers from young statisticians from 138 developing countries. He was the first prize winner for his paper “Modelling time series of counts with deflation or inflation of zeros.”