Sandra Mendez is Dr. by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) in High Performance Computing with research interests on Parallel I/O of the HPC systems. Since 2013, she is research fellow at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Garching bei München, Germany. Her areas of expertise include the performance analysis, optimization and tuning of Parallel I/O for parallel scientific applications. She collaborates with UAB as an external researcher in the field of parallel I/O for HPC applications on Computer Cluster and Cloud environments.