I am currently an auxiliar professor at University of Minho and senior researcher at INESC TEC. I have obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from the MAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science. Currently, I am working on large scale distributed systems with an emphasis on storage and database systems’ scalability, performance, security and dependability. Also, I am interested on the applicability of this research work for solving complex data management challenges for Cloud Computing and HPC centres.I am the coordinator of the PAStor PT-UTAustin exploratory project and the “Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing” CENTRA project, while leading INESC TEC’s activities on the Compete2020 BigHPC project and ACTPM PT-UTAustin exploratory project. Also, I have several publications in renowned journals and international conferences (e.g., ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Storage, Eurosys, SRDS, SYSTOR).For more information you can check my personal web page at https://jtpaulo.github.io, as well as, HASLab's research lines on the topics mentioned above: https://dsr-haslab.github.io and https://dbr-haslab.github.io