Daniel Valadão Silva is an agronomist (2009) and Master in Plant Production (2011) from the Federal University of the Valleys of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri, with a Doctorate in Crop Science (2014) from the Federal University of Viçosa, where he also completed his Postdoctoral studies (2015). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid (UFERSA) and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Soil and Water Management (Concept 4). He was the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in 2020, Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Crop Science (Concept 6) from 2016 to 2020, and Coordinator of the Institutional Committee for Undergraduate Research at UFERSA in 2019. He is a level 1C Productivity grant recipient from CNPq. He has supervised 18 Master's students and 13 Doctorate students, and has overseen 2 postdoctoral internships. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Weed Control Journal (formerly the Brazilian Herbicide Journal) and a section editor for the Caatinga Journal and Advances in Weed Science. He has served as a reviewer for various national and international journals. He received the Young Researcher Award in 2018 from the Brazilian Society of Weed Science. In the field of Agricultural Sciences, his research is related to modeling the behavior of herbicides in the environment, the ecotoxicology of herbicides, and integrated weed management in cultivated species.