He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil, in 2004, and his Masters (2006) and PhD (2010) degrees from (UNICAMP), Brazil. Luiz has been awarded with the IEEE Communications Society Latin America Young Professional Award 2013. He has organized cloud computing workshops (MGC, CloudAM, WCGA), and participated in several technical program committees (CCGrid, LatinCloud, CLOSER, Cloud and Green Computing). His main interests are in the areas of virtualization and scheduling in grids and clouds.