Adrian Cristal co-leads the Computer Architecture for Parallel Paradigms research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center which coordinates the RETHINK big Project. His expertise is in hardware and computer architecture. He and his co-leader coordinated the VELOX FP7 project on Transactional Memory. In addition to coordinating RETHINK big, he currently coordinates the FP7 ParaDIME Project on Parallel Distributed Infrastructure for Minimization of Energy as well as participates in the FP7 AXLE Project on Advanced Analytics for Extremely Large European Databases.