Rafaa Ashamallah Ghobrial is an Informatics Assistant Research Professor, Sudan National Centre for Research of Ministry of Science and Technology. Supervises the activities of the scientific information systems and services in Documentation and Information Centre. Worked as part-time lecturer in some of the universities and resource person in building capacities and human resource development as well as contributes to the advisory and consultative planning of information committees inside/outside the country. The current areas of interest and research program related to informatics and information technologies and member in professional societies related to information/ science/technology.