Prof. Birgit Vogel-Heuser is Chair Professor of Automation and Information Systems in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich. She received her Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering in 1987 and her Dr.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering in 1990 from the RWTH Aachen, Germany. She was involved in industrial automation with the machine and plant manufacturing industry for nearly ten years, including a position as technical director for the Siempelkamp Group. After various professorship positions in Hagen, Wuppertal, and Kassel, she was appointed to the Chair of Automation and Information Systems at TUM in 2009. Currently,   she is in the area of systems and software engineering as well as in the modeling of distributed and reliable embedded systems. Especially, her research foci are put on the challenges that result from the increasing demand to produce customer-specific products in the plant manufacturing domain. Engineering and education on the hybrid process and heterogeneous distributed and intelligent systems using a human-centered approach are also included in her research area. Prof.Vogel-Heuser has over 500 scientific publications and 72 book chapters and she is also an editor of the handbook Industrie 4.0. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). She serves as the editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE T-ASE) and IFAC Journal of Systems and Control. She was the Keynote speaker of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS 2020). She is also a member of various advisory boards, including the advisory board of the VDI/VDE-GMA and the board of trustees of the German Museum.