Simone Leo received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2002. From 2003 to 2006 he has worked in the private sector as a system administrator. Since 2006 he has been working at CRS4 as a software engineer and, from 2008, as a researcher. His research interests are mainly focused on distributed computing models, with an emphasis on their applicability to computational biology.