Dr. Roberto de Pinho holds a PhD in computer science and computational maths from the Universidade de São Paulo - USP and a MSc in Energy Industry Regulation. He is a Senior Science and Technology Analyst at the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, currently working at the General Coordination for the Ocean and Antarctica. He was Head of Section, Science, Culture and Communication at the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Deputy Secretary at the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation, State of Bahia, Brazil, and delegate to the OECD’s National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators Working Party (NESTI). He is an acknowledged contributor to the Frascati Manual 2015 and has published in collaboration with experts from institutions such as the OECD, UNESCO and IBGE (Brazil’s National Stats Office). As a data scientist and  STI policy and indicators expert, he has worked in relevant projects in data mining & visualization, bibliometrics and STI policy and indicators definition & analysis.