Silvia Hansen-Schirra is Professor for English Linguistics and Translation Studies, the Director of the Translation & Cognition (TRA&Co) Center and Dean of the Faculty for Translation Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim. She is the co-editor of the book series“Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing” and “Easy – Plain – Accessible”. Her research interests include machine translation, accessible communication and translation process research.