Raúl Tempone received the graduation degree in industrial engineering from the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1995, and the master’s degree in engineering mathematics (inverse problems for incompressible flows, supervised by Jesper Oppelstrup) and the Ph.D. degree in numerical analysis (a posteriori error estimation and control for stochastic differential equations, supervised by Anders Szepessy) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 1999 and 2002. He was worked on the optimal dispatch of electricity for the Uruguayan system using techniques from nonlinear stochastic programming and visited the KTH to study numerical analysis. He later moved to ICES, UT Austin, to work as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2003 until 2005 in the area of numerical methods for PDEs with random coefficients (supervised by Ivo Babuska and Mary Wheeler). In 2005, he became an Assistant Professor (joint appointment) with the School of Computational Sciences and the Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee. In 2009, he joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as an Associate Professor (founding faculty) and was promoted in 2015 to the rank of Full Professor in applied mathematics. Since 2012, he has been directing the KAUST Strategic Research Center for Uncertainty Quantification. In 2007, he was awarded the first Dahlquist Fellowship by KTH and COMSOL for his contributions to the field of numerical approximation of deterministic and stochastic differential equations. In May 2018, he has been recently awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (hosted by RWTH Aachen) by the German Ministry of Education and Research.