Carlos Borrego was born in Madrid. He received his degree in Computer Science (6 year program) at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. After finishing his studies he moved to work for CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2001 he moved to CASPUR, University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy) and stayed there for four years. In 2005 he moved to the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) where he finished his PhD and worked for Pic and IFAE research centers. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Information and Communications Engineering dEIC. He gives lectures on computer networks and cryptography.