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Basics

Name Luiz Gadelha
Label IT and Research Data Engineer
Url https://lgadelha.github.io
Summary Scientific data engineer with expertise in research data management, computational workflows, and FAIR principles. Experience in bioinformatics, biodiversity informatics, and high-performance computing.

Work

  • 2026.02 - Present
    IT and Research Data Engineer
    Heidelberg University
    Research data management in the Cluster of Excellence GreenRobust
    • FAIR computational workflows
    • Research IT infrastructure administration
  • 2023.03 - 2026.01
    Project Coordinator
    German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
    Project coordination for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI)
    • Development of reproducible and FAIR computational workflows for genome analysis
    • Genomics and health data life-cycle management
  • 2020.02 - 2023.02
    Research Associate
    Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
    Research data manager for the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse
    • Computational reproducibility improvement for microbial community analysis workflows
    • Application of HPC methodologies to microbial community analysis workflows
  • 2004.08 - 2020.02
    Technologist
    National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC)
    Implementation of high-performance bioinformatics and biodiversity workflows
    • Brazilian Biodiversity Information System (SiBBr)
    • Wildlife Health Information System (SISS-Geo)
    • Manager of the Brazilian node in GBIF
    • D.Sc. and M.Sc. student supervision
  • 2001.04 - 2004.08
    System Administrator
    Certisign Certificadora Digital S.A.
    Development of public-key infrastructure systems
    • Verisign Processing Center APIs and OpenSSL development in C and Java
    • System administration for Sun Solaris and Linux
  • 2000.02 - 2001.03
    Auxiliar Professor
    State University of Western Paraná
    Teaching Analysis of Algorithms and Theory of Computation courses

Education

  • 2007.01 - 2012.01

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    D.Sc.
    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
    Computer and Systems Engineering
    • Doctoral internship at Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago (2010-2011)
  • 1999.01 - 2000.01

    Brasília, Brazil

    M.Sc.
    University of Brasília
    Computer Science
  • 1993.01 - 1997.01

    Brasília, Brazil

    B.Sc.
    University of Brasília
    Mathematics

Awards

  • 2015.01.01
    National Biodiversity Award
    Ministry of Environment of Brazil
    Winner in the Public Bodies category for the Wildlife Health Information System (SISS-Geo)
  • 2014.01.01
    Best paper in the 'Health' Category
    Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
    III Seminar on Great Challenges of Computing in Brazil
  • 2017.01.01
    Best paper in the 'Demo' track
    Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD)
    HPSW-Prof: A Provenance-Based Framework for Profiling High Performance Scientific Workflows

Certificates

Skills

Scientific Data Engineering
Data management planning
Metadata management
Data provenance
FAIR principles
Semantic web
Computational Workflows
Nextflow
CWL
Parsl
Swift
Databases
PostgreSQL
PL/pgSQL
SQLite
Programming
Python
Scala
C
Scalable Computing
Parallel computing
Spark
OpenStack
AWS
DevOps
Docker
Git
Terraform
Ansible

Languages

Portuguese
Native speaker
English
C2 (Proficient)
Spanish
Intermediate
German
B2

Interests

Research Data Management
FAIR principles
Data provenance
Metadata management
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Metagenomics
Metabolomics
Biodiversity Informatics
Ecological niche modeling
Species distribution modeling

Projects