I received the degree of Computer Engineer from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) in 1998, and my PhD from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) in 2005. I have been working professionally since 1994 as a developer, designer, architect and leader of diverse distributed systems developments, with a particular focus on network management applications since 1999. I have been involved in several collaborative research projects with different research groups such as the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and the Laboratory of Communication Networks at KTH in Sweden. In 2005 I obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship for a post-doctoral position at Ericsson Ireland where I worked as a researcher and project coordinator. Currently, I am a researcher at the University of the Republic in Uruguay. My research interests include network management in general, and policy-based management and autonomic communications in particular.