Sebastian Hack is a professor of computer science at Saarland University. His work focuses on compiler construction, especially code generation, automatic vectorization and parallelization. Before, he was an assistant professor at Saarland University, a Post-Doc at EPFL and a Post-Doc at ENS Lyon, France. He received his PhD in 2006 from Karlsruhe University, Germany and his Diploma degree also from Karlsruhe University in 2004.