Matthias Templ is a Professor at the Institute for Competitiveness and Communication at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Olten, and a lecturer at ETH Zurich and the Vienna University of Technology, where he was awarded the venia docendi (habilitation) in statistics. His main research interests include computational statistics, compositional data analysis, robust statistics, imputation of missing values and anonymization of data. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Austrian Journal of Statistics and (co-)author of four books including Statistical Disclosure Control for Microdata and Applied Compositional Data Analysis. He is also an author and the maintainer of several R packages, such as the R package sdcMicro for statistical disclosure control, the package robCompositions for robust analysis of compositional data, the simPop package for simulation of synthetic data, and the VIM package for visualization and imputation of missing values.