D. Herrero-Pérez received the M.S. degree in mechanical and electrical engineering from the Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, in 2007. Since 2010, he is an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Cartagena. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, for a period of two academic years (2007–2009). He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Center of Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) of Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, and at the Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica of Instituto Superior Tecnico (ISR/IST), Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests are in the field of real-time systems, high-performance computing, computational methods, and uncertainty quantification, with a special focus on industrial applications.