Javier Garcia Blas has been a teaching assistant of the University Carlos III of Madrid since 2005. He received the MS degree in Computer Science in 2007 at the University Carlos III of Madrid. He also received a PhD with honors in Computer Science from University Carlos III in 2010. He has cooperated in several projects with researchers from various high performance research institutions including HLRS (funded by HPC-Europe program), DKRZ, and Argonne National Laboratory. He is currently involved in various projects on topics including parallel I/O, cloud computing, and accelerators for high-performance platforms. He is currently involve in bioinformatics projects . He has participated in many conference organization committees, and in the last two years he has been Program Chair of EuroMPI 2013, C4Bio 2014, and ESAA 2014. He counts with 33 research publications in international journals and conferences.