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Stephane Cotin joined INRIA in February 2007 as senior research scientist. His principal research activities revolve around the simulation of medical procedures, for training and planning purposes. This involves various aspects such as biomechanical modeling of soft tissue, mechanical modeling of flexible medical devices such as stents, catheters and guide-wires. He is also involved in research on contact modeling between deformable structures, performance metrics for training systems, and patient-specific anatomical modeling adapted to real-time simulation constraints. Stephane is currently responsible for the development of a national initiative on Medical Simulation using the SOFA framework as a common platform for research, integration and validation of new algorithms. From 1999 to 2007, Stephane was the research lead for the Sim Group at CIMIT in Boston where he was responsible for defining research directions and technical infrastructures for several simulation projects, including a Chest Trauma Training System, a Computer-Enhanced Laparoscopic Training System and an Interventional Radiology Training System. For more information, check Stephane's web page

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François Faure completed a Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science at University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France in 1997.  He previously studied Mechanical Engineering at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.  His research interests are mostly about the interactive physically based animation of complex scenes.  François is an Assistant Professor at Grenoble Universities and researcher in team EVASION, INRIA, LJK-CNRS.  web page

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Jérémie Allard completed a Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 2005. He previously earned his Masters in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans in 2002. During his Ph.D. in the INRIA MOAIS team, he focused on FlowVR, an open-source framework for interactive distributed simulation and visualization applications. As a post-doctoral fellow he joined INRIA Evasion team to work on fluid/solid coupling, and then CIMIT in Boston, working on medical simulations. He is now a Researcher at INRIA Lille in the Alcove team, where he is the lead developer of the SOFA project and continues his research on parallel and GPU-based interactive simulations. For more information, check Jérémie's web page.

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Christian Duriez received the engineering degree from the Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers of Lille, France, a master of science degree by research, and the PhD degree in robotics, both from University of Evry, France. His thesis work was realized at CEA/Robotics and Interactive Systems Technologies followed by a postdoctoral position at the CIMIT SimGroup in Boston. He arrived at INRIA two years ago. His research work concerns deformable models and friction contact interactions for medical simulations. For more information, check Christian's web page.

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Herve Delingette received the masters degree and the PhD degree from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, France, in 1989 and in 1994 and was habilitated in 2006. From 1989 to 1992, he was a visiting scientist at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Human Interface Laboratory, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). He is currently a research director in the ASCLEPIOS Research Group, INRIA Research Center, Sophia Antipolis, France. His research interests include medical image analysis, image segmentation, soft tissue modeling, surgery simulation, and computational models of the human body. He is the co-author of more than 150 papers papers in those fields. He was the cochair of the First Symposium Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling in 2003. For more information, check Herve's web page.

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Florent Falipou received both an engineering degree from the ENSIMAG (Ecole Nationale Superieure en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble), and from the UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), a Brazilian university where he completed a one year and a half exchange. His main domains of interest are Image Processing, and Virtual reality. He entered the famous SOFA team in April of 2007, and is now a full-time engineer, integrating new components, answering users' questions, and maintaining the Subversion repository.

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Juan Pablo de la Plata Alcalde received his engineering degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (Spain) in 2007. In 2005, Juan Pablo completed in France, within the student exchange program ERASMUS, an academical year at Polytech-Lille (EUDIL). This experience allowed him to take contact with the medical simulation. Really interested by this domain, he entered the SOFA team in October 2006, within the exchange program LEONARDO, and he became full-time engineer in SOFA one year later.

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Pierre-Jean Bensoussan received an engineering degree from the Grenoble IT ENSIMAG in 2003 with an image processing and virtual reality specialization. As a member of the ALCOVE project team at INRIA Lille Nord Europe, he's been involved in the development of the SOFA framework during 3 years until December 2007. In 2008 he joined the Digital Trainers company in Strasbourg. There, as a RD engineer, he is in charge of the development of surgical simulators, powered by SOFA, in an industrial context.

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Erik Pernod received his engineering degree from the Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur de Toulon et du Var in 2008, where he studied numerical modelling and analysis. To direct his domain of activity toward image processing, he joined the Asclepios team of the INRIA of Sophia-Antipolis where he first worked for the NeuroLOG project as intern and now as full-time engineer for the SOFA project. For more information, check Erik's web page.

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Sylvain Thery completed his PhD in computer science from the University of Strasbourg in 2000. During his Ph.D. in the IGG Team of LSIIT (https://lsiit.u-strasbg.fr/igg-fr), he focused on topological modeling and relationship between topology and embedding. As a post-doctoral fellow he worked on global illumination applied to architectural scene in the IRIT Lab in Toulouse. After four years as research engineer in the IRCAD research institute (http://www.ircad.fr/) he joined the IGG Team of LSIIT as research engineer in geometric and topological modeling.

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Stephanie Marchesseau graduated from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, one of the top French engineering school, as well as from the University of Cambridge where she received a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics. To apply her knowledge in computing and applied mathematics she joined Asclepios team in 2009 as an engineer. After a year of research on liver surgery simulation, she decided to start a PhD in this team and now works on SOFA for cardiac therapy planning. For more information, check Stephanie's website.