Dr. habil. Attila Kertesz is an associate professor at the Department of Software Engineering of the University of Szeged, leading the IoT Cloud research group at the department. He graduated as a program-designer mathematician in 2005, received his Ph.D. degree at the SZTE Doctoral School of Computer Science in 2011, and habilitated at the University of Szeged in 2017. His research interests include the federative management of Blockchain, IoT, Fog and Cloud systems, and interoperability issues of distributed systems in general. Currently he is the leader of the FogBlock4Trust sub-grant project of the TruBlo EU H2020 project, and a national project OTKA FK 131793 financed by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, and a work package leader in the GINOP IoLT project, financed by the Hungarian Government and the European Regional Development Fund. He is also a Management Committee member of the CERCIRAS and INDAIRPOLLNET Cost Actions. He has more than 100 publications with more than 1000 citations.