Reinaldo Rafael joined the Faculty of Tourism as a lecturer in 2025. He completed his Doctoral Program in 2024 in Udayana University with a dissertation titled "Bentuk Pemahaman Wacana Pariwisata Berkelanjutan di Kawasan Nusa Dua, Bali" (Forms of Discourse Understanding Regarding Sustainable Tourism in Nusa Dua Tourism Area, Bali), and participated in Master Program's Asia-Europe Meeting Student Exchange between Fachhochschule (FH) Stralsund and Udayana University in 2016. He also completed his master thesis titled "Gap Analysis untuk Implementasi Smart Travel di Bandar Udara Internasional I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Bali" (Gap Analysis on Smart Travel Implementation at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali) in 2017.

His research interest as always been Computer Application in Tourism, but this dissertation paved the way to his fascination in Existentialism and Postmodernism. Michel Foucault's relation between power and knowledge, Hannah Arendt's Human Condition, and Albert Camus' philosophy are his personal interests, as well as Victor Turner's Liminality and Communitas. Since 2025 he is seeking to unveil the inter-relationship between technology, tourism/community structure, and individual's sense of existence in travel.