Jordi Ortiz has been an Assistant Professor since 2022 at the Defence University Centre at the Spanish Air Force General Academy of San Javier (Spain) in the Department of Engineering and Applied Technologies. He received an MSc degree in computer engineering in 2007, an MSc. degree in advanced information and telematics technologies in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in computing engineering in 2018, all from the University of Murcia. Dr. Ortiz has participated in several international research projects starting with ist-Daidalos2 to Inspire-5Gplus as a full-time researcher in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering from the University of Murcia, starting in 2007 until 2022. Through to this period, his work has broadened from identity management technologies to 5G and beyond. He has also served as TPC in multiple conferences; just to highlight some, IEEE NFV-SDN, IEEE GIoTS, IEEE NetSoft, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things,  Globecom IoTSN, IEEE ICC, IEEE MeditCom, and the Spanish Defence DESEID congress among others. Regarding Journals, he serves also as a reviewer in multiple journals such as Computer Communications, the International Journal of Informatics, and Communications Technology and Computer Standards and Interfaces among others. His present research interests include smart network management and automation, optical networks, and edge computing.