Rafael Vaño completed a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering at the Universidad Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) in 2016. He continued his studies with a Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, which he completed in 2018. Then, in 2025, he finalized his PhD, which is focused on the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. Currently, he is part of the Distributed Real Time Systems Lab (SATRD) at UPV. Rafael has participated in several EU research projects, including PIXEL, ASSIST-IoT, aerOS and MISSION, in which he has performed a role of researcher and developer, collaborating closely with their core technical teams and also leading part of the technical decisions. His research activities and interests encompass a wide range of topics related to the Internet of Things, cloud computing, distributed computing for the edge, virtualization and software engineering. Rafael has also authored or co-authored more than 15 publications in relevant journals and conferences.