General Information

Full Name César Bernabé
Year of Birth 1992
Languages English, Portuguese

Education

  • 2020 - 2025
    PhD in Bioinformatics
    Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 2018 - 2020
    Masters in Software Engineering
    Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
  • 2013 - 2017
    Bachelor in Computer Science
    Federal University of Espírito Santo and University of Toronto (16 month exchange programme)

Experience

  • 2026 - present
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2024 - 2025
    FAIR Data Steward
    Leiden University Medical Centre
  • 2020 - 2024
    FAIRification Steward
    European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)
  • 2019-2020
    Software Developer and Ontologist
    Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

Academic Interests

  • FAIR and FAIRification
    • FAIRification planning (e.g., agile methods for FAIRification, goal-modelling for FAIRification)
    • FAIRification implementation and tooling
    • Training on FAIR and FAIRification
  • Ontologies and AI
    • Foundational Ontologies (e.g., Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO))
    • Impact of Foundational Ontologies on symbolic AI
    • Ontology mapping

Other Interests

  • Other topics: In my free time, I like to read books about psychology.