Alexandru Iosup

Alexandru Iosup serves as a full professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he holds the tenured chair of the Massivizing Computer Systems research group while maintaining a visiting researcher position at TU Delft. His research in distributed systems and ecosystems has earned him numerous prestigious recognitions, including membership in the Royal Dutch Young Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands ICT Researcher of the Year award, and knighthood for cultural and scientific merits. His research expertise spans distributed systems, resource management, middleware, cloud computing, and applications in scientific computing and big data processing. As chair of the SPEC-RG Cloud Group, he leads significant developments in cloud computing research. His excellence in education has been recognized with the Netherlands Higher-Education Teacher of the Year award, reflecting his commitment to innovative teaching approaches. His work continues to shape the field of distributed systems through research in performance optimization, energy awareness, and computing continuum applications