Luis M. Contreras holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunications from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1997), an M.Sc. in Telematics jointly from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2010), and a Ph.D. in Telematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2021). In 1997, he joined Alcatel Spain, taking several positions (R&D, standardization, product development, and customer engineering). In 2006, he joined the network planning department of Orange in Spain, taking responsibility for the IP backbone planning. Between 2002 and 2010, he was also an adjunct lecturer at the Telematics Department of the Universidad Carlos III. Since August 2011, he has been part of Telefónica Innovación Digital (TID), part of Telefónica CTIO unit, working on scalable networks and their interaction with cloud and distributed services and participating in several National and international research projects. He actively contributes to standardization in bodies such as IETF, O-RAN, ETSI, etc. Full profile can be found at https://lmcontreras.com/