General Information

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

Education

  • 2020 - 2024
    PhD Candidate
    Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • I research the use of foundational ontologies and goal-based models to facilitate FAIRification planning and conceptual modelling of FAIR data.
  • 2018 - 2020
    Masters in Software Engineering
    Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
    • Researcher at NEMO, the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group, which investigates the application of domain and fundamental ontologies, as well as information modeling, corporate modeling, agent-based systems and the Semantic Web.
  • 2013 - 2017
    Bachelor in Computer Science
    Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Experience

  • 2019-2020
    Software Developer and Ontologist
    Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
    • At Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, I worked in the development, implementation and application of artificial intelligence and data analysis tools for the brazilian health care system (SUS) using technologies for semantic integration (e.g., ontologies) of databases from different sources.
  • 2020 - 2024
    FAIRification Steward
    European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)
    • At EJP RD, I work as a member of the FAIRification Stewards working group. The stewards’ aims include identifying the needs and providing advice regarding the implementation of a FAIR patient registry, as well as promoting convergence in FAIR implementation choices between the registries and with those of the EJP RD Virtual Platform.

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 eXplainable AI
    • Foundational Ontologies (e.g., Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO))
    • Impact of Foundational Ontologies on eXplainable AI
    • Ontology mapping

Other Interests

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