Elçin Yenişen Yavuz, M.Sc., is a researcher and doctoral student at the Professorship for Open Source Software at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. She received her master’s degree of International Information Systems from the FAU, Germany. Before joining academia, she led various projects in the automotive, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Her areas of interest are open innovation, open source software development, collaborative software development, and digital transformation.