Luís Rodrigues owns an Engineering Degree (1986), a MSc (1991), and a PhD (1996) in Electrotechnical Engineering and Computers by the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. Lisboa. He obtained the title of ``Agregado em Informática'' from the Faculdade de Ciências da U. Lisboa in 2003. He started his academic career as a teaching assistant in 1989, in the Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e Computadores of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. Lisboa. From October 1996 to July 2007 he was a faculty member of the Departamento de Informática of the Faculdade de Ciências (FC) da U. Lisboa. Since 2017, he is a full Professor of the Departamento de Engenharia Informática of IST. He served as head of department both at FC ULisboa and at IST ULisboa. From 1986 to 1996 he was a member of the Distributed Systems and Industrial Automation Group at INESC. From 1997-2007, he was a (founding) member of the LASIGE laboratory at University of Lisbon, first as a member of the Navigators group and later as the leader of the Distributed Algorithms and Network Protocols group. From July 2007 he is a member of the Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID Lisboa. He served as Director of the LASIGE in 2004-2005 and he served as director of INESC-ID Lisboa from 2014-2017. The focus of his work is on researching and teaching algorithms for building reliable distributed systems that are both sound and efficient to implement. As a result, he has combined theory and practice in more than 12 international research projects with the industry and has published more than 200 scientific papers in these areas. He is the co-author of two textbooks on distributed computing. He has supervised 17 PhD students and more than 60 MSc students. On Google Scholar he shown a h-index of 47 and more than 9K citations to his work.