Rafael Da Silva
Group Leader, Workflow And Ecosystem Services at Elsevier
Knoxville Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRafael Da Silva is a strategic research leader with 15 years of experience shaping scientific workflows and ecosystem services, currently heading the Workflow and Ecosystem Services group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He combines hands-on senior research expertise with organizational leadership, serving simultaneously as a Senior Research Scientist at ORNL, Executive Director of the Workflows Community Initiative, and Special Content Editor at Elsevier. His academic background includes a PhD from INSA Lyon and graduate degrees from leading Brazilian universities, underpinning a career at the intersection of computational research, reproducible workflows, and community-driven tooling. Rafael is known for translating complex research requirements into scalable, interoperable workflow solutions that accelerate collaboration across disciplines. He often operates at the nexus of research, publishing, and open community standards—an uncommon blend that helps bridge laboratory R&D and broad scientific adoption.
15 years of coding experience
PhD, PhD at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de LyonMSc, MSc at Universidade Federal de Campina GrandeBachelor, Bachelor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Spanish, French, English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
benchmark10
simulation-modeling10
computational-science10
bioinformatics-workflow10
synthetic10
distributed-computing10
genomes10
wrench10
parallel-computing10
synchronize10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
recover10
scientific-workflow10
simulation-framework10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wfcommons/wfcommons.github.io
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
wfcommons/WfFormat
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
The WfCommons JSON Schema for workflow instances and generators
Contributions:6 releases, 28 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
dagscientific-workflowssimulationwfcommons
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