Raül Sirvent has a PhD. degree in Computer Science at the Computer Architecture Department (UPC, 2009). He holds a permanent position at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center inside the Computer Sciences department, Workflows and Distributed Computing group. His main research interests are related to High Performance Computing programming models, deployment, dynamic resource management and scheduling, as well as Grid and Cloud programming models and tools, automatic workflow generation, fault tolerance mechanisms and provenance. He has been involved for more than 15 years in both European and Spanish research projects.