Jorge LÓPEZ DE VERGARA is currently an associate professor in the Electronics and Communication Technologies Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He received his MSc degree in telecommunications from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) in 1998 and finished his PhD in telematics engineering at the same university in 2003, where he held a 4-year research grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. In 2000 he was a visiting researcher at Hewlett-Packard labs for 6 months. He has participated in several Spanish and EU research projects. In 2009, together with other university professors, he founded Naudit High Performance Computing and Networking, a spin-off company devoted to traffic monitoring and analysis. His current research topics include network, service, and distributed application management and monitoring. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in scientific conferences and journals.