Maud Marchal is a Full Professor of Computer Science at INSA (French National Engineering School) in Rennes, France. Her main research interests include: physically-based simulation, haptic feedback, 3D interactions, virtual reality and medical applications. She received a PhD in Computer Science in 2006 from University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. In 2007 she was at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and she was at Inria Lille, France, in 2008.