Philipp Haller is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the leading technical university in Sweden. He is co-author of Scala's async/await extension for asynchronous programming, and one of the lead designers of Scala's futures library. Main author of the book "Actors in Scala," he created Scala's first widely-used actor library. Philipp was part of the team that received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award in 2019 for the development of the Scala programming language. Prior to KTH, he was an early employee at Akka (previously Lightbend, Inc.) working on concurrency in Scala. Prior to Akka, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, USA, and at EPFL, Switzerland. Philipp received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2010 and a Dipl.-Inform. degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (previously University of Karlsruhe), Germany, in 2006.