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In the last two years since I graduated:

Received my first major grant from the French National Research Agency (ANR) for a 4-year project, worth ~$325k
Published 5 journal articles and 3 conference papers (CHI, PacificVis, VAST)
Had one workshop paper with a best paper award, and one best paper honorable mention at VAST
Graduated 2 Master's students
Been invited to teach at 2 summer schools (University of Zurich, University of Konstanz) and gave 5 invited talks on collaborative visualization (University of Kaiserslautern, Konstanz, Toronto, Georgia Tech, MSR)
I have been a regular reviewer for top conferences (CHI, InfoVis, AVI, CSCW, UIST, ... and several journals such as Computers and Graphics, Computer Graphics and Applications, Information Visualization Journal)
I was an organizing committee member for VisWeek, ITS, CSCW
I was a program committee member for 7 conferences

University of Magdeburg, Germany
- Diplom-Degree in Computational Visualistics (eqv. to a MSc), with distinction
University of Calgary, Canada
- PhD Degree in Computer Science

2010: Best paper honorable mention at VAST 2010
2010: Best paper award at Beliv, the InfoVis workshop on evaluation techniques for information visualization
2009: A best paper award (third best paper) at EuroVis.
2004-2009: Alberta Ingenuity/iCORE Studentship Award. Scholarship for PhD studies (total value about $30k for 5 years).
2004: Best graduate in Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany (Faculty Award), best graduate in Computational Visualistics (my specific program)

sual Analytics. Grant from the French National Research Agency (ANR), PI, $325,000.

I have taught:

At summer schools for the university of Konstanz and the University of Zurich: Introduction to Information Visualization and CSCW
Several shorter guest lectures at the University of Calgary & Purdue
I was teaching assistant with course-development duties for an information visualization and a graphics class

Co-supervised two Master's students in France
Supervising was officially not allowed in Calgary for PhD students - for this time period better to use the word "mentoring" (?)
Mentor for Matthew Tobiasz (MSc student - 1 InfoVis 09 paper from his work), Julie Stromer (Research assistant - 1 Tabletop 09 paper)
Volunteered to mentor 1 PhD student in Magdeburg (a Magdeburg mentoring project), 2 young girls in SciberMENTOR mentoring program)