JR received his BS and MS in computer science from Universitat de Lleida (UdL) in 2006 and 2008 respectively. Currently hi is a PhD student in the same university and his research interests are high-performance computing, P2P systems and parallel simulation.
FC received his BS and MS from 1997 and 2000, respectively, and a PdD in distributed multimedia systems from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain, in 2004. He is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Lleida, Spain. His research interests include distributed multimedia systems, multimedia and high-performance P2P systems and parallel simulation.
FS received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, in 1991, 1994 and 2002 respectively. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Lleida (Spain). His research interest include are distributed processing and HPC.
JvH has a PhD in Mathematics and Physical Sciences from the Leiden University, The Netherlands (2002). He is a project manager at Optos--an innovative retinal imaging company with a vision to be recognised as the leading provider of retinal diagnostics. Since 2010, he is a Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.
JK is a research associate at the UK's National e-Science Centre of the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are grid computing. He has an MSc from University of Twente in the Netherlands and a PhD from the University of the West of Scotland (formerly the University Paisley) in the UK.
CN is a group leader in the Bioinformatics and Genomics programme of the CRG. He was trained as a bioinformaticist in the lab of Des Higgins at EMBL (Heidelberg) and later at the EBI-EMBL (Cambridge). He was awarded his PhD in 1997 and then obtained a junior professor position in Marseille University (1999) and in Lausanne University (2000). In 2002 he obtained a junior CNRS scientist position. After 5 years in the lab of Jean Michel Claverie (IGS) he is currently on leave at the CRG (Barcelona) where he is a senior group leader, heading the laboratory of Comparative Bioinformatics in the Bioinformatics and genomics department. His work is focused on the development of multiple sequence alignment methods and the comparison of protein sequences and structures. He has developed and maintained the T-Coffee Multiple sequence alignment Package, one of the most accurate of its kind that has so far received close to 1000 citations. Between 2001 and 2006, he was a consultant for the pharmaceutical industry (Aventis and Sanofi Aventis) providing expertise on the analysis of the human kinome through multiple sequence comparisons.