Alberto Bacchelli is a professor of Empirical Software Engineering at University of Zurich,Switzerland, where he leads the Zurich Empirical Software Engineering Team (ZEST).His broader research vision is to innovate software engineering, through fundamental empiricalresearch and software tools. His goal is to increase our scientific knowledge of today’s softwaredevelopment and to design, based on strong empirical evidence and theory, the right tools, languages, and development environments for high‑quality software engineering.