Ricardo Dias received his doctoral degree from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. João Lourenço, where he holds a position as postdoc researcher in the NOVA-LINCS laboratory. He his currently conducting research with Prof. Rodrigo Rodrigues in the areas of distributed transactions for geo-replicated storage systems, and consistency models for replicated systems. He has received a Distinguished Paper Award in Euro-Par 2012 and the Best paper Award at HVC 2012.