Andreas Metzger is an adjunct professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and heads the group “Adaptive Systems” at paluno, the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology. His research interests include the use of machine learning in software engineering and business process management. He is the steering committee vice chair of the European Technology Platform NESSI (The Networked European Software and Services Initiative) and was deputy general secretary of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) from 2015 to 2021. Among other leadership roles in EU projects, he was the technical coordinator of the Big Data Value PPP lighthouse project TransformingTransport.