We would like to congratulate Rory O'Connor on his recent promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at Dublin City University. Rory has also recently been appointed to the role of Editor in Chief of the Computer Standards and Interfaces journal, published by Elsevier. Rory is currently serving as Head of the School of Computing in DCU and is a senior researcher in Lero. His research interests are centered on the processes whereby software intensive systems are designed, implemented and managed. Rory is an active member of the international standards community, where he represents Lero as Ireland's Head of Delegation to the ISO for Software & Systems Engineering. We wish him well in his new roles.