Paulo Ferreira is Associate Professor with Habilitation (with ”Agregação”) at the Computer and Information Systems Department at the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico - IST/UTL),¬ Portugal, where he has been teaching classes in the areas of Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Mobile Computing, and Middleware, both at the under-graduate and post-graduate levels. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Universiteé Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris-VI). His M.Sc. (1992) and Bs.E.E. (1988) are both from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon). He is a researcher at INESC ID since 1986, where he leads the Distributed Systems Group (www.gsd.inesc-id.pt), addressing distributed systems and operating systems with emphasis on mobility, pervasive and ubiquitous systems, distributed midlleware and large-scale distributed data sharing. He has coordinated many national and international projects: OBIWAN, DGG-Rotor, Haddock-FS (funded by Microsoft Research), Mnemosyne, MobileTrans, Electronic Democracy, UbiRep (funded by the Portuguese science and technology foundation), Comandos, Harness, Broadcast, Flash, PerDIS, TRACE (starting June 1, 2015), etc. (funded by European Union). Paulo Ferreira has also served in many consultancy projects for private and public instituitions (nacional and international) in the area of distributed systems (e.g. Java virtual machine, security) and has been evalua¬tor of European projects proposals in the area of Grid computing. He was Pro-Rector at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) between 2007 and 2010, being responsible for the analysis and evaluation of existing information and communication systems. In this activity, among other tasks, he has coordinated the VoIP project, improved the computer system of the academic services as well as the infrastructure of communications between the various schools of UTL. He is also member of the Directory Board of Óbidos Technological Park representing UTL. He has supervised 13 PhD students and more than 70 MsC students. He has been teaching at the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico - IST/UTL) for more than 20 years in the areas of Operating Systems, Distributed Systems and Mobile Computing. He has been general Chair of ACM European Conference on Computer Systems 2007 (http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/conference/EuroSys2007/) and ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (http://2011.middleware-conference.org/), both top level international conferences. He is author or co-author of more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific communications, 1 book on operating systems (edited both in Portugal and Brasil), 1 book in distributed context-aware systems (edited by Springer) and 1 book on Smart Solar Grid (published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing). He has served on the program committees of several international journals, conferences and workshops in the area of distributed systems. He is senior member of ACM and IEEE and was one of the founders and board officer of EuroSyS (ACM - European Chapter of the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) where he currently serves as member of the steering committee. He is also member of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware steering committee, and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications from Springer. He is senior member of ACM and IEEE, was awarded two Best Paper Awards at international events (ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference, level A in both CORE and RADIST rankings), 1 Recognition of Service Award from ACM, his PhD thesis was top ranked at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and in the academic years of 2010/2011 (2nd semester) and 2013/14 (1st semester) he was awarded the mention of “excellent teaching” at IST in the courses of Mobile Computing (MSc, 1st year) and Operating Systems (BSc, 2nd year), respectively.