Daniel Mendez is full professor at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Senior Scientist heading the research division Requirements Engineering at fortiss, Germany. He received his Dr. rer. nat. and his habilitation degrees from the Technical University of Munich. He is editorial board member for EMSE and JSS where he co-chairs the special tracks Reproducibility & Open Science (EMSE) and In Practice (JSS). He is further a member of the ACM, the German association of university professors and lecturers, and ISERN. His research concentrates on Empirical Software Engineering with a particularfocus on qualitative research in Requirements Engineering. Further information is available at http://www.mendezfe.org.