Dietmar Bauer is professor of econometrics at Bielefeld University. He completed his PhD studies in Applied Mathematics at the TU Wien in 1998. Since then he has worked in Newcastle (Australia), Linköping (Sweden), Yale (USA), and Linz and Vienna (Austria) before moving to Bielefeld (Germany). His research interests include time series analysis (in econometrics and system identification for automatic control) and discrete choice models (mainly in the area of transportation science).