Dr. Vladimir Korkhov is an Associate Professor of the Computer Modeling and Multiprocessor Systems Department at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2009, with his thesis on hierarchical resource management in grid computing. He has participated in a number of national and international projects on distributed and grid computing, in particular VL-e: the Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (NL); SHIWA: Sharing Interoperable Workflows for large-scale scientific simulations on available DCIs (EU FP7); and ER-flow: building a European Research community through interoperable workflows and data (EU FP7). He also has led a number of RFBR-funded projects and research projects with industrial partners and served as Chief Architect and R&D Head at the Distributed Ledger Technologies Center, SPbSU. As a post-doctoral researcher, he worked at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam and at Charité—Medical University of Berlin on applying grid technology to bioinformatics and medical applications. His research interests include parallel, distributed, grid, and cloud computing; resource management; distributed ledgers (blockchain); and IoT systems. Dr. Korkhov has published 140+ scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings.