Dr. Javier Navaridas is a Lecturer in computer architecture in the Advanced Processors Technologies group of the University of Manchester. He obtained his PhD in Computer Engineering in 2009 from the University of the Basque Country which was rewarded with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award (Top 5% of theses in the academic year - 16 out of 306). He joined the University of Manchester with a prestigious Newton Fellowship in 2010. His research interests include interconnection networks for parallel and distributed systems, and performance evaluation of parallel architectures, with special emphasis on simulation and characterization of application’s behaviour.