Klaas-Jan Stol is a lecturer (a role equivalent to assistant professor in North America) with the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork. Klaas has been a member of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, since 2008. His research focuses on contemporary software development methods, including open source, inner source, agile & lean software development. He’s also interested in research methodology and theory development. Klaas is leading a number of research projects, some of which are funded by industry. Overall, he has raised over €1m to fund his research, which has been published in a range of journals and conferences, including ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the International Conference on Software Engineering, and IEEE Software. Contact him at klaas-jan.stol@lero.ie.