Steffen Zschaler is a Reader in Software Engineering in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. He has been teaching and researching software engineering and model-driven engineering for almost two decades. He is the director of MDENet, the expert network on model-driven engineering (see www.mde-network.org for more information). His current research interests are in the application of MDE to the development of agent-based models and in the application of search-based optimisation techniques in the context of MDE.