Sylvain Lefebvre is a senior researcher at Inria (France), where he leads the MFX team. His main research focus is to simplify content creation, synthesizing highly detailed patterns, structures and shapes, with applications in Computer Graphics and Additive Manufacturing. Sylvain received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award in 2010. From 2012 to 2017 he was the principal investigator of the ERC ShapeForge (StG) and IceXL (PoC) projects. He created and is the lead developer of the IceSL software for modeling for additive manufacturing.