Daniela Oliveira
Ontology Lead - Technical R&D (TRD) at Novartis
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolDaniela Oliveira is an ontology and semantics leader with 11 years of experience applying data integration and metadata management to health and life-science data. Currently Ontology Lead in Technical R&D at Novartis and formerly Metadata Management Lead for the Data42 program, she blends hands-on data engineering with research-grade expertise from a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Bioinformatics. Her work focuses on publishing meaningful, machine-readable health knowledge on the Web to accelerate discovery and reuse of existing evidence. Based in Lisbon, she pairs academic rigor—former PhD researcher and invited professor—with pragmatic delivery in industry-scale projects, making complex biomedical data interoperable and discoverable. An uncommon strength is her end-to-end perspective across research, metadata governance, and ontology design, enabling both conceptual clarity and production-ready implementations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other, Bachelor's degree, Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other at University of LisbonMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at National University of Ireland, Galway
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
driver7
arangodb7
query-language6
database6
python6
graph-database6
sql-like5
document-database5
graphdb5
geneontology5
key-value5
javascript4
ontologies4
nosql4
ontology4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AgreementMakerLight/AML-Compound
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes in 5 months
danielapoliveira/AML-Compound
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
matchescompoundamlontologiescomposed
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