Gustavo Candela is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Alicante, where he received his PhD in Computer Science. His main areas of research interest are Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Research Data Infrastructures and Collections as Data. He has worked with and published on the integration and quality of Linked Open Data in libraries, as well as Collections as Data and Jupyter Notebooks using datasets provided by several GLAM institutions. He is part of the management board of the International GLAM Labs Community, Impact centre of competence in digitisation and Wikimedia Spain. He is a member of the Joint Research Committee of DARIAH and co-chair the Virtual Competency Centre on e-Infrastructure. As part of his work, he recently joined the Technical Assessment Committee in ECHOES. He has closely collaborated with institutions and initiatives including the National Library of Scotland, Europeana, LIBER, British Library, Columbia University, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, and DARIAH-EU.