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Paulo Maciel graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1987, and received his MSc and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from Univesidade Federal de Pernambuco, respectively. He was faculty member of the Electric Engineering Department of Universidade de Pernambuco from 1989 to 2003. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Informatics Center at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, where he is currently Associate Professor. He is research member of the Brazilian research council (CNPq) and IEEE member.

In 2011, during his sabbatical from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, he stayed at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department within the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University as Visiting Professor.

His research interests include performance, dependability and energy consumption evaluation, capacity planning, Petri nets and formal models, encompassing applied areas such as cloud computing, sustainable data centers, manufacturing, embedded, and communication systems.