Dominique Bechmann is a professor of computer science at the Strasbourg University and a researcher at the ICube CNRS Lab since 1996. For 30 years, she has also been head of the computer graphics research team in Strasbourg, France. From 1986 to 1989, she did her PhD at the IBM scientific centre (Paris, France) on geometric modelling of anatomic organs. In 1990, she did a postdoc at the T.J. Watson research centre (Yorktown Heigths, New York, USA) on deformation models. In 1991, she became an assistant professor and since then she is working on geometric modelling and virtual reality.