Thorsten Berger is a Professor in Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. His research focuses on automating software engineering for the next generation of intelligent, autonomous, and variant-rich software systems – exploring new ways of software creation, analysis, and evolution. Thorsten Berger received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Leipzig in Germany in 2013, supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada and the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and then an Associate Professor jointly at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He received grants from the Swedish Research Council (competitive early-career grant), the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Vinnova Sweden (EU ITEA project), and the European Union (H2020 project). He received a fellowship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Wallenberg Foundation, one of the highest recognitions for researchers in Sweden. He received best-paper awards at the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN conference on MODULARITY and the 2013 European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR, now IEEE SANER), as well as most influential paper awards at the VaMoS’20, the VaMoS’23, and the SLE’24 conference. His service was recognized with distinguished reviewer awards at the ASE’18, the ICSE’20, and the SPLC’22 conference.