Dr. Elena Zudilova-Seinstra is a Senior Researcher at the Department of the Section Computational Science of the University of Amsterdam. Previously she worked for the SARA Computing and Netwoking Services and for the Corning Scientific Center. Her research interests include multi-modal and adaptive interaction, scientific visualisation, virtual and augmented reality, biomedical systems and usability studies. She received MSc degree in Technical Engineering in 1993 and PhD in Computer Science in 1998 from the St. Petersburg State (Poly)Technical University. In 1997-1998 she participated in the SME Educational Program at the Manchester Business School. Apart from being a researcher, in 1999-2002 she was a part-time Assistant Professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Management Methods and Techniques. Since 2003 she has been organising a series of International Workshops on Scientific Visualisation and Interaction Technologies in cooperation with the Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Discovery Research Organization - CSIRO ICT Centre. She has been a Program Committee Member of several International Conferences and Workshops. Also, she has been a reviewer for International Journals (a.o.: Springer Virtual Reality, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, Springer Knowledge and Information Systems, Palgrave Information Visualization Journal, Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology, Springer Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Elsevier Decision Support Systems) and conferences (a.o.: ACM SIGHCI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), BCS HCI Group Conference, Mobile HCI, International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), ACM SIGHCI Conference "Designing Interactive Systems" (DIS), ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (EURO-PAR), International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT), International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM)). At the University of Amsterdam she has been involved in teaching MSc and BSc courses related to scientific visualisation, HCI and computer graphics, as well as in supervising undergraduate MSc students. She has published more than 50 research papers, 5 editorials and been the evaluator of INTAS, SEE-ERA.NET, NSERC and RPF. In June 2007 she joined the Editorial Board of the SERSC International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology.