Dr. Carlos da Silva is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computing of Sheffield Hallam University, where he leads the Applied Software Engineering Research Group - ASERG. He as actively involved and interested in R&D in the area of Software Engineering and its interplay with Information Security, exploring topics like Autonomic and Self-adaptive Software Systems, Service-orientation, Micro-services and Business Process, Secure by design, Digital Identity Management and Access Control. He has been involved in a number of R&D and innovation projects related to Smart Cities and information security, where he applied the above mentioned topics to the areas of Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and DevOps.