Philippas Tsigas received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering and informatics from the University of Patras, Greece. He was at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (CWI), and at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrucken, Germany, before. At present, he is a professor in the Department of Computing Science at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research interests include concurrent data structures and algorithmic libraries for multiprocessor and many-core systems, communication and synchronization in parallel systems, power aware computing, fault-tolerant computing, autonomic computing, and scalable data streaming.