Reinhold Scherer is Professor of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) and Neural Engineering (NE) at the University of Essex. He is also the Co-Director of the Essex BCI-NE Laboratory and the current Head of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE). His academic journey includes a Dipl.-Ing. (MSc) degree obtained in 2001, a Dr.techn (PhD) in Computer Science awarded in 2008, and a Habilitation in Applied Computer Science conferred by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria, in 2016. His postdoctoral tenure from 2008 to 2010 was spent at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Prof. Scherer’s career progressed at TU Graz, where he held the roles of Assistant Professor from 2010 to 2016 and Associate Professor from 2016 to 2018 at the Institute of Neural Engineering. Additionally, he served as the deputy director of the same institute from 2011 to 2018. His expertise also extended to the role of technical director at the Institute for Neurological Rehabilitation and Research at the Clinic Judendorf-Straßengel in Austria from 2005 to 2016.