Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Currently, he is a researcher at the APE parallel/distributed computing lab of INFN Roma and the coordinator of the WaveScalES experiment in the Human Brain Project WP3.2. Previously, Paolucci coordinated the FET European Projects EURETILE (2010-2015 - Brain Inspired Distributed Computing) and SHAPES (2006-2009 - Scalable Software Hardware Platforms). During 1998-2009, he served as Chief Technical Officer of the Roman design center of ATMEL, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, and guided the design of the Diopsis Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip family. Since 1984, he participated to the researches of the INFN APE lab and co-designed parallel and distributed applications, hardware processors and system software. Paolucci received his MSc Physics from Università di Roma “la Sapienza”, and is the inventor/co-inventor of international patents, hardware/software numerical algorithms and hardware/software co-design techniques.