Lars Grunske is currently a Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Potsdam (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Systems Engineering) in 2004. He was Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Junior Professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, Boeing Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland from 2004-2007 and a lecturer at the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia from 2008-2011. He has active research interests in the areas modelling and verification of systems and software. His main focus is on automated analysis, mainly probabilistic and timed model checking and model-based dependability evaluation of complex software intensive systems.