Slinger Jansen is an associate professor at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, where he leads the Software Ecosystems Security research group. He is one of the leading researchers in the domain of software ecosystems and co-founders of the International Conference on Software Business and International Workshop on Software Ecosystems. He is lead editor of the book 鈥淪oftware Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry鈥 and of several others. Currently, he has a guest appointment at LUT 木瓜福利影视, Finland. Furthermore, he is an associate editor for the Empirical Software Engineering journal. Besides his academic endeavors he actively supports new enterprises and sits on the boards of advisors of several start-ups.