Rui Oliveira is an associate professor with habilitation at the Informatics Department of the University of Minho, where he teaches Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems. He is co-director of the UT Austin Portugal Program, director of the Minho Advanced Computing Centre, and board member of the EuroHPC JU and Irish Centre for High-End Computing. He was a member of the INESC TEC Board of Directors (2012-2024) and director of the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (University of Minho and INESC TEC, 2010-2015). Oliveira received his PhD in 2000 from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His main research contributions have been in the fields of fault-tolerant and large-scale distributed systems, as well as the conception, development, and assessment of dependable and scalable database systems. Rui Oliveira has been involved in several research and innovation projects, coordinating the FP6 GORDA, ESCADA, StrongRep, Stratus, H2020 SafeCloud, and STAYWAY COVID projects. He has published over 100 research papers on fault-tolerant and large-scale distributed systems. He co-founded three start-up companies. Oliveira has served on the program committee of several highly reputed conferences. He has chaired the IFIP DAIS and IEEE SRDS technical program committees and served as general chair for both IEEE SRDS and ACM Eurosys conferences. He chairs the IEEE SRDS Steering Committee and has served on the Steering Committees of ACM Eurosys, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware and IFIP DAIS conferences, the Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre), and the Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications (CENTRA).