Dr. habil. Attila Kertesz, DSc. is an associate professor at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, leading the IoT Cloud research group at the department. He is also the Vice Dean of Public Relations of the Faculty of Science and Informatics of the University of Szeged. He graduated as a program-designer mathematician in 2005, received his Ph.D. degree at the SZTE Doctoral School of Computer Science in 2011, habilitated at the University of Szeged in 2017, and received the Doctor of the Academy (DSc) degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2024. His research interests include the federative management of Blockchain, IoT, Fog and Cloud systems, and interoperability issues of distributed systems in general. He is the European PI of the SO-SMART EIG-CONCERT EU-Japan project, and a group leader at the Swarmchestrate EU HORIZON project. He has coordinated the FogBlock4Trust sub-grant project of the TruBlo EU H2020 project, and the national project OTKA FK 131793 financed by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund. He has more than 150 publications with more than 2500 citations.