Viktor Vafeiadis is a tenured researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), working on the semantics and verification of concurrent and persistent programs. Prior to joining MPI-SWS in 2010, Viktor got his PhD from the University of Cambridge (2008), and held postdoc positions at Microsoft Research and at the University of Cambridge. He has received the ACM SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds doctoral dissertation award (2008), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020), the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner young researcher award (2022), and various distinguished paper awards.