Martín Abadi is a research scientist at Google, in the Google Research team. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where was a Professor in the Computer Science Department till 2013. He has held an annual Chair at the Collège de France, has taught at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, and has worked at Digital’s System Research Center, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and other industrial research labs. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1987. His research is mainly on computer and network security, programming languages and systems, and specification and verification methods. It has been recognized with the Outstanding Innovation Award of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control and with the Hall of Fame Award of the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, among other awards. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He holds a doctorate honoris causa from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.