Dr. Jens Heidrich is head of the “Smart Digital Solutions” division at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern. In this function, he is responsible for the strategy of research activities as well as their implementation in the context of national and EU- funded projects. In addition, he is active as a consultant and project manager in industrial transfer projects and holds seminars and practitioners’ workshops on various topics in the area of software engineering and data science. He is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, a member of the Task Force “Data Science” of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (German Computer Science Association), and a member of program committees of various workshops and conferences on a national and international level (e.g. ICSSP, PROFES, SEAA, and SWQD).