Raül Sirvent has a PhD. degree in Computer Science at the Computer Architecture Department (UPC, 2009). He has been involved in research activities at the European Center of Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA) from 2002 to 2005. Since year 2005 he holds a permanent position at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center inside the Computer Sciences department. 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 and fault tolerance mechanisms. He has been involved in FP6 projects CoreGRID, BEinGRID, and BREIN; FP7 projects OPTIMIS, transPLANT, ASCETiC and HBP-RU; the spanish projects NUBA and AMIGA4GAS; and has been one of the founders of the GRID superscalar project (the root of the COMPSs Programming Model). Currently he is involved in the FP7-H2020 FET Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP), to build a completely new information computing technology infrastructure for neuroscience and for brain-related research both in medicine and computing, and working in the H2020 HPC Europa 3 project to provide an innovative and breakthrough container-as-a-service architecture specifically designed for HPC systems to improve portability of domain applications on different systems. He has also acted as EU-ICT project proposals reviewer, has been invited to a number of venues as speaker, has been referee of renowned journals and has acted as Program Committee of renowned conferences.