Prof. Dr. Pascal Bouvry earned his undergraduate degree in Economical and Social Sciences and his Master's degree in Computer Science with distinction (1991) from the University of Namur, Belgium. He went on to obtain his PhD degree (1994) in Computer Science with great distinction at the University of Grenoble, France. His research at the IMAG laboratory focused on Mapping and scheduling task graphs onto Distributed Memory Parallel Computers. Next, he performed post-doctoral research on coordination languages and multi-agent evolutionary computing at CWI in Amsterdam. Prof. Dr. Bouvry gained industrial experience as manager of the technology consultant team for FICS. Next, he worked as CEO and CTO of SDC, a Saigon-based joint venture between SPT, Spacebel SA, and IOIT. Then, he moved to Montreal as VP Production of Lat45 and Development Director for MetaSolv Software. Prof. Dr. Bouvry is part of the editorial boards of four computer science journals and he is currently "Chargé de Mission auprés du Recteur" in charge of the University High Performance Computing service, heading the PCOG (Parallel Computing and Optimization Group), directing the doctoral programme DP-CSCE, directing the certificate SmartICT for Business innovation, and serving as Professor. He is also faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center of Security, Reliability and Trust and the Luxembourg national delegate for PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe).