Matteo Lanati received a MS in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2004. In 2007 he completed his Ph.D. program at the same University, starting a post-doc cooperation with EUCENTRE (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering) to work on two European projects involving grid computing and body area networks. In 2011 he joined LRZ where he built on his distributed computing skills. He is currently part of the team that takes care of the institution’s compute cloud platform.