Erhard Cramer is a Professor in the Institute for Statistics at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. He has numerous publications to his credit and his research interests include order statistics, generalized order statistics, censoring methodology, B-spline theory, and statistical inference. He is a coauthor of the book The Art of Progressive Censoring: Applications to Reliability and Quality published by Birkhäuser, Boston, in 2014.