Carlos Baquero is an Associate Professor in the Informatics Department, Universidade do Minho, and an Area Manager at the High Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) within INESC TEC. His research interests are in data management, causality tracking and distributed data aggregation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he teamed with other researchers in network theory, complex systems and statistics to study new approaches to data aggregation and estimation in order to track the pandemic evolution.