In a very short time the COVID-19 epidemic has spread over the world and affected us all, our societies, as well as the organisations we work for. Its effects have in many cases been tragic and we feel with those that have been and will be affected.

The topical collection on "Software Engineering and COVID-19" in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal will collect papers where the pandemic is directly and/or indirectly driving the change and/or phenomena under study. We are looking for volunteers to provide fast, high-quality feedback to the authors. If you’d like to to volunteer to review papers submitted to the topical collection, please complete this form.