Ricardo Marau is a Research Fellow at CISTER - Research Center in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems. He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in 2004 and received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Aveiro, in 2009. He visited the University of Cantabria, Spain, in 2005, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 2008, the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, in 2008, and the University Carlos III, Spain, in 2010. During the period of 2009-2012 he has been a research fellow at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Porto, being involved in the project iLAND (EU ARTEMIS JU) as technical manager and work-package leader. His research interests are on Switched Ethernet Real-time, scheduling and communication middlewares.