About the Editor
Ernst Wit is Chair of Statistics and Probability at the University of Groningen. He was the Chair of the European Regional Committee (ERC) of the Bernoulli Society (2013 - 2015), which revived the SemStat series. He is currently coordinating a European COST Action on Statistical Network Science and is a member of the ERC and the Board of Directors of the IBS. He has broad interests in statistics and its applications, ranging from high-dimensional inference, network analyses, statistical systems biology, optimal design and algebraic approaches to statistics.