Jordi Lladós Segura reveived the ETIS, B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Escola Politècnica Superior of the Universitat de Lleida (UdL), Spain, in 2010, 2012 and 2013 respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Lleida where he has a grant UdL of the group of distributed computing "Grup de Computació Distribuïda" (GCD). His research interests include new algorithmic methods for multiple alignment of genomic sequences on supercomputing environments.