Josep Domingo-Ferrer is a Full Professor of Computer Science and an ICREA-Acadèmia Researcher at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, where he holds the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy. He received with honors his M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1988 and 1991, respectively (Outstanding Graduation Award). He also holds a M. Sc. in Mathematics. His fields of activity are data privacy, data security and cryptographic protocols. He has received three research awards and four entrepreneurship awards, among which the ICREA Acadèmia Research Prize from the Government of Catalonia. He has authored 3 patents and over 260 publications, one of which became an ISI highly-cited paper in early 2005. He has been the coordinator of EU FP5 project CO-ORTHOGONAL and of several Spanish funded and U. S. funded research projects. He currently co-ordinates the CONSOLIDER ''ARES'' team on security and privacy, one of Spain's 34 strongest research teams. He has chaired or co-chaired 9 international conferences and has served in the program committee of over 80 conferences on privacy and security. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of ''Transactions on Data Privacy'' and an Associate Editor of three international journals. In 2004, he was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and in 2011 he has visited University of Rome 3 as Invited Outstanding Professor.