Prof. Trautmann is a Professor of Statistics at the Information Systems Department of the University of Münster, Germany. Her research interests are in the areas of Data Science, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms, Exploratory Landscape Analysis, Algorithm Configuration and Selection. She is the Vice Dean for International Affairs at the School of Business & Economics at the University of Münster and a Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), Münster, Germany. She holds a PhD Degree in Statistics from the University of Dortmund, Germany. She has been serving as a Program Committee Member for several years already for major conferences such as CEC, GECCO, PPSN and FOGA and she is Editorial Board Member of the Evolutionary Computational Journal.