Remco van der Hofstad is Full Professor of Probability at Eindhoven University of Technology. He received the 2003 Prix Henri Poincaré (jointly with Gordon Slade) and the 2007 Rollo Davidson Prize, and he is a laureate of the 2003 Innovative Research VIDI Scheme and the 2008 Innovative Research VICI Scheme. He served as scientific director at Eurandom from 2011 to 2019, and is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science. Van der Hofstad is one of the principal investigators of the prestigious NETWORKS Gravitation Program and is the creator of the interactive website networkpages.nl, aimed at a broad audience.