Xavier Franch is professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTech), where he leads the GESSI research group (https://gessi.upc.edu/en). Active researcher with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, his research interests include Requirements Engineering, System Modeling, Software Evolution and Adaptation, and Agile Software Development, among others. In the EU framework programmes, he coordinated the Q-Rapids (H2020, 2016-2019) and RISCOSS (FP7, 2012-2015) projects, acted as scientific manager in SUPERSEDE (H2020, 2015-2018) and participated in OpenReq (H2020, 2017-2019). He is editorial board member of the following journals: IST (Elsevier), REJ and Computing (Springer), and IJCIS (World Scientific); as well as Deputy Editor of IET Software and Journal First chair in JSS (Elsevier). He belongs to the steering committee of several major conferences (remarkably IEEE RE and CAiSE) and has occupied several conference positions in major software engineering conferences conferences, remarkably as general chair (PROFES'9 and RE’08) and program chair (RE’16, ICSOC’14, CAiSE’12 and REFSQ'11). He is full member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) association (also as part of the organization’s Council). He has won several best papers awards. He has taught tutorials and organized workshops on software engineering-related topics in several major conferences as ICSE, RE, CAiSE. More details at https://www.essi.upc.edu/~franch/.