Rui Fernandes
Journal Manager at Frontiers
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRui Fernandes is a strategic journal manager and life sciences communicator with a PhD in Ecology & Evolution and 11 years of professional experience bridging academic research and scientific publishing. Based in Lausanne, he leads multidisciplinary teams at Frontiers to build high-impact editorial pipelines, optimize peer review operations, and shepherd articles from commissioning through production. He combines deep technical familiarity with R, GIS, SQL basics and project tools (Asana, Jira, Tableau, Salesforce) with hands-on experience designing workflows that scale across departments. Rui’s background in field ecology and spatial modelling informs his editorial focus on ecology, biodiversity, climate and sustainability, enabling him to translate complex science into policy-relevant and public-facing content. Known for streamlining processes and mentoring teams, he has repeatedly stepped into interim leadership roles to stabilize and grow journals. Colleagues appreciate his blend of analytical rigor and pragmatic stakeholder collaboration, plus a friendly “say hi!” approach evidenced in his GitHub bio.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolution, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolution at University of Lausanne - UNILMaster of Science (MS), Ecology, environment and territory, Master of Science (MS), Ecology, environment and territory at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (138)
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mi10
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ubuntu9
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grafana9
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docker-image9
npm9
bluetooth-low-energy9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bitkill/blea2mqtt
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
🛩️ Sends BLE sensor data to MQTT
Contributions:11 reviews, 147 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 3 months
bluetoothblebluetooth-low-energymqtthome-automation
bitkill/prometheus-ecs-discovery
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
🩺 A Prometheus discoverer that scrapes Amazon ECS and a generates file SD configuration file.
Contributions:11 reviews, 20 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 6 months
ecsconfiguration-fileamazondiscoveryscrapes
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