As the Senior Technical Project Manager for BioFAIR, Dr Nishadi De Silva coordinates cross-disciplinary projects to advance FAIR practices and build a unified digital research infrastructure for the life sciences in the UK. 

This involves working closely with researchers, software engineers, delivery partners and stakeholders to align workflow and data management strategies to meet the demands within the UK.

Prior to this, Nishadi was at EMBL-EBI where she lead the delivery of three bioinformatics resources (Ensembl Bacteria, Ensembl Protists, Ensembl Fungi) and coordinated data management for cross-instituitional projects such as TREC. 

Before then, Nishadi worked in the Pathogen Informatics team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Southampton, UK.

Nishadi holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, UK.

Justin is the BioFAIR Architect in the BioFAIR Hub at the Earlham Institute.