Armin Rigo was born in 1976 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a researcher at the Heinrich-Heine Universität (Düsseldorf, Germany). He is the main author of several programs, most notably in the field of programming language implementation (Psyco and PyPy). Previous positions include the University of Southampton (UK) and a Ph.D. in Logic and Set Theory at the Free University of Brussels.