Maude Manouvrier is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (France). She is member of the « Algorithms for Masses of Data » Group of the LAMSADE Lab. She has received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000. From 1998 to 2003, she has been working in an international CNRS -CONICIT cooperation with the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), and since 2008 she is working in an international CNRS -FONACIT cooperation with the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB - Caracas - Venezuela). She is or was reviewer or member of program committee of several International Conferences and Journals and is, since 2012, Program Chair of the International Symposium on Advances in Transaction Processing (in conj. with the International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems). Her research interests are focused on Spatio-Temporal and Multimedia Databases, Access Methods and Indexing Structures, Content-Based Image Retrieval and Web Services for Transactional Composition.