In 2002 he received his Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the Politehnica University of Timisoara. He is author of the "Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice" book (Springer, 2006), and the recipient of an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award (2006). He has published over 25 papers related to metrics, quality assurance and software evolution and has served in the last years in more than 10 program committees of international conferences. Radu Marinescu has been constantly working as a consultant and trainer for several well-known IT companies, such as Siemens, IBM and Alcatel-Lucent.