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affiliation:  Universitat Illes Balears, Mallorca, Spain

Ramon Puigjaner received his degree of Industrial Engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) in 1964, his Master degree in Aeronautical Sciences from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique de Paris (France), his PhD. from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) in 1972 and his degree of License in Informatics from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) in 1972.

From 1966 to 1987 he shared his time between the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he taught and researched on Automatic Control, Computer Architecture and Computer Performance Evaluation, and several positions in the industry, mainly from 1970 to 1987 in UNIVAC (after SPERRY and finally UNISYS) where he was in charge of computer performance measuring and modelling for tuning and sizing in Spain. In 1987 he joined full time the Department of Computer Science of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) where he is currently Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology. Since 1979 and 1982 he has been the Dean of the Informatics Faculty of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and between 1988 and 2004 has been Director of the Polytechnic School of the Universitat de les Illes Balears.

His current research topics are the performance evaluation of computer systems and computer networks particularly related to real-time, distributed and ambient intelligent systems. He is author of a book on computer performance evaluation and of more than one hundred and fifty peer reviewed papers in international journals and conferences on computer networks and performance evaluation. He has served in the organization of International Conferences as Chair, Programme Chair and Technical Programme Committee member.

He is the Spanish representative at the IFIP General Assembly and at the TC6 Communication Networks and is the Vice Chairman of this TC. He has been chairman between 2002 and 2004 of the WG6.9 Communication in Developing Countries. He has been awarded with the IFIP Silver Core. He is Life Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of the ACM.