Dr. Eduard Escalona is the Infrastructure Control and Management research line manager within the Distributed Applications and Networks Area of the i2CAT Foundation. Before, he worked for 5 years (2007-2012) as a senior research officer at the University of Essex (UK) involved in several EU funded projects. He obtained his MSc degree in telecommunications and PhD degree in optical grid networking at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His main research interests are related to future internet architectures, with special focus in SDN and control and management of future internet infrastructures. He is co-author of over 60 scientific papers among international conferences and journals