Anna Queralt is a senior researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) since 2012. She holds a PhD in Computer Science (2009) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech). She was a faculty member at the UPC from 2003 to 2012, coordinator and lecturer in the Technology for Big Data course at the ESADE Business School from 2016 to 2018, and is lecturing master and postgraduate courses on Big Data Management at the UPC School of Professional and Executive Development since 2015. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Research Group, and a member of the SPEC Big Data Working Group. Her research interests are related to data sharing, storage systems, data management in IoT, and the integration of data in the programming model to facilitate the development of data-intensive applications. She has participated in national and European projects related to these areas such as EUDAT, BigStorage, EXPERTISE, mF2C, CLASS or ELASTIC. The research line she leads has been developing and evolving dataClay, an open-source distributed active object store, for the last 8 years.