Philipp Haller is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests are in the design and implementation of programming languages, type systems, concurrency, and distributed programming. He was part of the team that received the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for the development of the Scala language. He is also one of the founders of the Software Development Academy at KTH, a 3-month accelerated training program in software development, which was selected finalist for the 2022 IDG Tech Awards Sweden. Philipp received his Dipl.-Inform. degree in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2006, and his PhD in computer science from EPFL in 2010.