Xavier Franch is professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech), where he leads the GESSI research group (https://gessi.upc.edu/en). His research interests include Requirements Engineering, System Modeling, Empirical Software Engineering, Software Evolution and Adaptation, and Agile Software Development, among others. He is editorial board member of IST, REJ and Computing, and Journal First chair in JSS. He belongs to the steering committee of RE and CAiSE, and has occupied several conference positions in major software engineering conferences conferences, remarkably as general chair (RCIS’22, PROFES’19, RE’08) and program chair (CAiSE’22, RE’16, ICSOC’14, CAiSE’12, REFSQ’11). He is full member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) association (also as part of the organization’s Council). More details at https://www.essi.upc.edu/~franch/.