2000, PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Research interests in database systems and applications, and in particular: in strengthening the interaction between the database software and emerging hardware and I/O devices; and in automating data management to support computationally-demanding and data-intensive scientific applications. Member: IEEE; ACM. Vice-Chair, ACM SIGMOD. Has served as CRA-W mentor. Recipient of awards: ERC Consolidator Award (2013); Finmeccanica endowed chair, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon (2007); European Young Investigator Award, European Science Foundation (2007); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005); eight best paper awards in database, storage and computer architecture conferences (2001-2012); NSF CAREER award (2002).