He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from UEM (Brazil) in 2001, the MSE and PhD in Electrical Engineering from UFSC (Brazil) in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He spent some time as a visiting professor in Carnegie Mellow University (2010) and as a visiting researcher in Microsoft Research Cambridge (2014). Alysson is currently the coordinator of the DiSIEM H2020 project and collaborated in other nine international projects. He is the co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on dependability, security, Byzantine fault tolerance, and cloud storage. More information about him can be found in http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~bessani.