Dr. Luis Sanchez received both the Telecommunications Engineering and PhD degree from the University of Cantabria, Spain, in 2002 and 2009 respectively. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering at the University of Cantabria. He is active on IoT-enabled smart cities, meshed networking on heterogeneous wireless scenarios and optimization of network performance through cognitive networking techniques. He has a long research record working on projects belonging to the 5th, 6th, 7th and H2020 EU Framework Programs. He has authored more than 60 papers at international journals and conferences and co-authored several books. Currently he is the Technical Manager of the H2020 FIESTA-IoT project (H2020–ICT–2014–1- 643943 ) which is developing a federated IoT experimentation infrastructure from which experimenters and IoT infrastructures' providers will be able to seamlessly interoperate with their datasets through the use of semantic technologies.