Ángel de Vicente obtained his PhD in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Education from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2003 on the topic "Towards tutoring systems that detect students' motivation: an investigation". Since then, he has worked at the IAC, first as a post-doctoral High Performance Computing Support, then as a member of the Solar Partially Ionized Atmosphere SPIA project (ERC Starting Grant, PI: Elena Khomenko), being responsible for the parallelization and optimization of the MANCHA code. He has also been the teacher of the course "Advanced Programming Techniques" (mainly parallel computing) for the Astrophysics Masters Degree at the ULL since 2006. He has ample experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and with parallel computing (MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC, etc.). Since January 2018 he is a member of the POLMAG research team, after winning an advanced post-doctoral position funded by this ERC Advanced Grant. Ángel provides advice on HPC to all POLMAG members, and he is working on the (WP-4) development of the PRD version of PORTA and on WP-6.