Ignacio Martín Llorente

Ignacio Martín Llorente is a Full Professor (Catedrático) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), leading the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group and the Data-intensive Cloud Lab. He holds visiting positions at Harvard University as a Visiting Professor in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and as a Visiting Scholar in FAS Research Computing. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCM and an Executive MBA from IE Business School.

His research focuses on distributed systems, cloud computing architectures, big data processing, edge computing, and federated networking. He pioneered projects like OpenNebula (a cloud management system) and contributed to EU initiatives such as RESERVOIR (cloud virtualization), StratusLab (grid-to-cloud integration), and BEACON (federated networking). He has authored over 169 publications and serves on editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and Journal of Grid Computing.

He has secured over €100M in EU grants, leading 10 major projects. His work emphasizes transferring research into open-source technologies and commercial products. He advises OpenNebula Systems and has been a consultant for governments and companies like Microsoft. His teaching spans 67 courses in distributed systems, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.