Dr. Per Runeson is a professor of software engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and leader of its Software Engineering Research Group (SERG). His research interests include empirical research and collaboration with industry on software development and management methods. He is particularly interested in studies on testing, and the role of open source and open data in software engineering. He is the principal author of ”Case study research in software engineering”, has coauthored ”Experimentation in software engineering”, serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software engineering, and Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, the advisory board of Empirical Software Engineering, and is a member of several program committees.