Audrey Quedet is Associate Professor at the University of Nantes, Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Nantes and Member of the IRCCyN (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernetique de Nantes). She received her PhD in Automation and Applied Computer Science whilst contributing in the Real-Time Systems team, IRCCyN. Her research interests surround Real-Time Computing in general, including scheduling, synchronization mechanisms, energy management and Linux-based operating systems