Soraia Raupp Musse is an associate professor at the School of Technology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), where she created and still coordinates the Virtual Human Laboratory. Her research interests include Crowd Simulation and Analysis, Facial Animation, and Integration of Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Fèdèrale de Lausanne (Switzerland) where she was supervised by Prof. Daniel Thalmann. Recently, she spent a year at UPENN (USA) working as a visiting scholar with Prof. Norman Badler. She published more than 160 papers.