Marco Attene is a researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies (department of Genova) of the Italian National Research Council, where he investigates new directions, paradigms and algorithms for 3D geometric modelling, processing, analysis and semantic annotation. Marco holds a Laurea degree (MS equiv.) in Computer Science, a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering, and a Research Management diploma. In 2000-2001, he has been a visting PhD student at University of Otago (New Zealand) and in 2004 he has been an invited researcher at INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France). Marco is a proud member of the Shape Modeling Group, and contributed to the conception and implementation of international projects and collaborations. Within the scope of the EU FP6 AIM@SHAPE Network of Excellence, he coordinated a team of experts for the definition of a metadata structure to describe 3D shapes, currently at the basis of the popular AIM@SHAPE Shape Repository. He has been the promoter of key collaborations and joint research programs between IMATI and the University of Otago, INRIA, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Marco manages six sourceforge software projects involving experts from the University of Genova and from IMATI. He published on the most relevant journals in the area, he gave tutorials, plenary lectures and seminars at national and international schools, and presented his work at all the major computer graphics venues including, among the others, ACM Siggraph and Eurographics. Download a short CV here (last update Aug 09, 2010).