  Heavy-flavour hadrons, i. e. hadrons carrying charm or beauty quarks, are a
well-suited probe to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in relativistic
heavy-ion collisions. For this reason, measurements of electrons from
heavy-flavour hadron decays have been performed in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb
collisions at the LHC with the ALICE detector. Results for the nuclear
modification factors ($R_{\rm{pA}}$ and $R_{\rm{AA}}$) support a final-state
energy loss of heavy quarks in central Pb-Pb collisions and, in semi-central
collisions a positive elliptic flow coefficient $v_{2}$ of electrons from
heavy-flavour hadron decays was observed. Furthermore, a double-ridge structure
was observed in the measured two-particle angular correlation distribution,
triggered by heavy-flavour decay electrons, in high-multiplicity p-Pb
collisions relative to low-multiplicity p-Pb collisions and to pp collisions.
