Eduardo is a Scientific Data Specialist at LifeWatch ERIC’s ICT-Core, with a background in Earth and environmental sciences and extensive experience in data management and analytical workflows that enhance reproducibility, transparency, transferability, and portability. He has worked in international interdisciplinary research initiatives spanning European, African, and other global contexts, focused on biodiversity, natural capital accounting, and climate-resilient agriculture.
His work is grounded in FAIR and open-source principles and focuses on the development of interoperable research infrastructures for environmental and agricultural data systems. He has contributed to initiatives such as the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) and CGIAR’s GARDIAN platform, supporting the integration, discovery, and reuse of scientific data across disciplines and institutions. He specializes in data integration and interoperability, and building portable modelling environments to enable reproducible computational workflows. By bridging domain knowledge with technical implementation, he supports scalable research solutions that facilitate data-driven decision-making across scientific domains.
Main Publications
- Atiah, W. A., Garcia-Bendito, E., & Muthoni, F. K. (2025). Evaluating Seasonal Rainfall Forecast Gridded Models over Sub-Saharan Africa. Hydrology, 12(10), 251. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology12100251
- Mkuhlani S, Garcia-Bendito, E., Tofa AI, Aliyu KT, Shehu BM, Kreye C, et al. (2024) Spatial and temporal distribution of optimal maize sowing dates in Nigeria. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0300427. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300427
- La Notte, A., Garcia-Bendito, E., Ferrini, S., Grizzetti, B., Rega, C. et al., Ecosystem services accounting . Part III, Pilot accounts for habitat and species maintenance, on-site soil retention and water purification, Publications Office of the European Union, 2021, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/636621