Juan A. Acebrón received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), in 2000. From 2000 to 2012, Acebrón was a visiting Researcher at the Rome Supercomputing Center (Rome, Italy); the Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego; the Department of Information Engineering, Universita di Padova (Padova, Italy); University of Alcala (Madrid, Spain), University Rovira-Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), and Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal). Acebrón is currently a Researcher at INESC-ID and an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Universitario de Lisboa ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal), Information Science and Technology Department. His main research interests are in computational mathematics, mainly developing efficient and scalable algorithms for high performance supercomputing and random dynamical systems.