Philipp Haller has been a member of the Scala team since 2006. His research on concurrent programming with race-free actors in Scala has been published in leading conferences, winning a best paper award. He is the creator of Scala’s first actors library, as well as a contributor to the Scala language, standard library, and tools. Co-author of the book “Actors in Scala”, Philipp has been one of the lead designers of Scala’s new Futures API (SIP-14) as well as Scala Async. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL.