Fabio Porto is a Senior Researcher at the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing, in Brazil. He is the founder of the DEXL Laboratory, developing R&D activities in the context of scientific data analysis and management. He holds a PhD in Informatics from PUC-Rio, with sandwich at INRIA, in 2001, and a postdoc at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has more than 80 research papers published in International Conferences and Scientific Journals, including VLDB, SIGMOD and ICDE. He was the General Chair of VLDB 2018 and SBBD 2015. Since 2018 he has been a member of the SBBD steering committee, and a member of SBC and ACM.