Laurynas Šikšnys was a postdoc at the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. He received a BS degree in Informatics from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, in 2007; and a MSc degree in Computer Engineering from Aalborg University in 2009. He received a joint PhD degree in Computer Science from Aalborg University and Technische Universität Dresden in 2014. His research interests include energy data management, energy data management architectures, optimization, prescriptive analytics, and cyber-physical systems. He is involved in many Danish and EU projects, where he worked on designing and developing solutions for flexibility management, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and model predictive control. He has published a number of papers in related fields. He received a Best Paper Award from the ACM E-Energy 2017 conference.