Luiz Gadelha is a project coordinator at the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA) in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his doctoral degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with an internship at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, in the United States. He has worked in institutions like the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, in Brazil, and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, in Germany. He has been involved in the research and development of parallel and distributed scientific workflow management systems and scientific databases. He has participated in research projects in the bioinformatics and biodiversity application areas. His main research interests are scientific data management and computational reproducibility.