Dr. Per Runeson is a professor of software engineering at Lund University, Sweden, head of the Department of Computer Science, and the leader of its Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) and the Industrial Excellence Center on Embedded Applications Software Engineering (EASE). His research interests include empirical research on software development and management methods, in particular for verification and validation. He is the principal author of ”Case study research in software engineering”, has coauthored ”Experimentation in software engineering”, serves on the editorial board of Empirical Software Engineering and Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, and is a member of several program committees.