Nuno Preguiça is Associate Professor at DI FCT UNL, and leads the Computer Systems group of the NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics. The broad aim of his research is to develop techniques that allow applications to efficiently access and share data at any location and at any time. He has been the principal investigator of national projects FEW, Byzantium, RepComp, SwiftComp, the site leader for EU project SyncFree and participated in several other projects.  He has received a Google Research Award in 2009 for his work on solutions for cloud data management.