Alberto Abello, PhD, is associate professor at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, where he obtained his doctorate in 2002 and has been working as a lecturer and researcher since then. He has held research stays at the Universidad de Granada (Spain), Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Germany), Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University (France) and the Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay). His areas of expertise are Databases, in general, Data Warehousing and Big Data Management. He has coordinated at UPC European Erasmus Mundus programmes, both at the master and PhD levels, as well as H2020 projects and R&D agreements with companies such as Hewlett Packard, Zurich Insurance, SAP or the World Health Organization. He has also participated in more than ten national research projects or networks of excellence.