Manuel Prieto-Matias is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture at UCM. His research interests include areas of parallel computing and computer architecture. Most of his activities have focused on leveraging parallel computing platforms and on complexity-effective micro-architecture design. His current research addresses emerging issues related to heterogeneous systems, memory hierarchy performance and energy-aware computing, with a special emphasis on the interaction between the system software and the underlying architecture. He has co-written numerous articles in journals and for international conferences in the field of parallel computing and computer architecture.