Michi Spagnuolo is Research Director at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies of the CNR, Genova, where she
is leading the activities on "Advanced Techniques for the Analysis and Synthesis of 3D shapes". Her research interests include geometric, structural and semantic modelling of 3D objects, with emphasis on computational topology methods for the analysis of shapes and for the evaluation of shape similarity. She is member of the steering committee of Shape Modeling International, EG Workshops on 3D Object Retrieval, and of the EG Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage. She authored more than 130 reviewed papers in scientific journals and international conferences, edited two books, and is associate editor of international journals in Computer Graphics (currently, Computers&Graphics and The Visual Computer). She has been elected Eurographics Fellow in 2014.