Jesus Carretero is a Full Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), where he is responsible for that knowledge area since 2000 and leader of the Computer Architecture Research Group (ARCOS). His research activity is centered on high-performance computing systems, large-scale distributed systems, data-intensive computing, IoT and real-time systems. He was Action Chair of the IC1305 COST Action “Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS)”, and he is also currently coordinating the ADMIRE EuroHPC project. He has participated and leaded several national and international research projects in these areas, founded by Madrid Regional Government, Spanish Education Ministry and the European union. Prof. Carretero is Associated Editor of the journal Future Generation Computing Systems, IEEE TPDS and ACM Computing Surveys. He has published more than 300 papers in journals and international conferences, editor of several books of proceedings, and guest editor for special issues of journals as International Journal of Parallel Processing, Cluster Computing, or Future Generation Computing Systems, and he is coauthor of several text books related to Operating Systems and Computer Architecture. He has participated in many conference organization committees, and he has been General chair of CCGRID 2017, HPCC 2011 and MUE 2012, and Program Chair of ISPA 2012, EuroMPI 2013, C4Bio 2014, and ESAA 2014. Prof. Carretero is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and member of the ACM. He is a Coordinator of the Spanish Research Agency for the Informatics area and also European Union projects evaluator. He was teaching in Facultad de Informática of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) since 1989 until 1997. In 1997 and 1998 he was a visiting scholar at the NorthWestern University of Chicago (Ill, USA). He works currently at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he has been teaching since 2000. He was Director of the Master in Administration and Management of Computer Systems, which he founded in 2004, and Vice-Dean for Informatics Engineering Degree since 2006 to 2012.