João Lourenço has received his doctoral degree from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2004, where he holds a position as Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department. He is in a member of the steering committee of the PADTAD Workshop Series, a member of the advisory board of the Euro-Par Conference Series, and a member of the Management Committee of the Euro-TM COST action. His primary research interests are in in-memory data management, and static and dynamic program analysis for anomaly detection in concurrent programs. Recentrly he spent 3 months of his sabbatical leave at the IBM Research Laboratories in Haifa, Israel.