Jorge Barbosa obtained his MSc degree from the Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Science and Technology, in 1993, and the PhD in Computer Science from FEUP, in 2001. He is Assistant Professor at the Dep. of Informatics Engineering at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto. His research activities are related to parallel algorithms, grid and cloud QoS based resources management, data locality and performance modeling for heterogeneous systems. He has (co-)authored over 50 scientific publications (including journal/conference papers and book chapters). He also co-edits a book on techniques and future prospects of grid computing.