**About the Editors**

## **Fernando L. Pelayo**

Fernando L. Pelayo has been an Associate Professor at Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha and Tutor Professor at UNED since 2000. He has published about sixty research papers, with one third of them being in JCR journals. He obtained the best university paper award in the IFIP TC10: International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS'2005). He has been a Guest Editor for the Special Issues "Quantum Computing Algorithms and Computational Complexity" and "Quantum Computing Algorithms and Quantum Computing Simulators", both belonging to the Mathematics and Computer Science sections of the Mathematics Journal. He chaired the First European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW'2004) and the Third and Fourth Workshops on Formal Methods in the Development of Software (WFMDS'2013–2014). His research interests include quantum computing, algorithm complexity, formal models of concurrency and discrete dynamical systems.
