Renato Pajarola received Dipl. Inf-Ing ETH and Dr. sc. techn. degrees in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1994 and 1998 respectively. Following his dissertation, he was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Graphics, Visualization & Usability (GVU) Center at Georgia Tech. In 1999 he joined the the University of California Irvine as an Assistant Professor where he founded the Computer Graphics Lab. Since 2005 he has been leading the new Visualization and MultiMedia Lab (VMML) at the University of Zurich as an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics. He is a member of ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer Society and Eurographics. Dr. Pajarola's research interests include real-time 3D graphics, multiresolution modeling, point based graphics, interactive large-scae scientific visualization, remote and parallel rendering, compression and interactive 3D multimedia. He has published a wide range of internationally peer-reviewed research articles in top journals and conferences. Dr. Pajarola regularly serves on program committees, such as for example the IEEE Visualization Conference (2004-06), Pacific Graphics (2002-03,07-08), IEEE Pacific Visualization (2008-09) or EuroVis (2001,2006-09). He was papers co-chair of the 2007 and 2008 IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Computer Graphics. Furthermore, he received a Eurographics 2nd Best Paper Award (as co-author) in 2005, and an IADIS Best Paper Award in 2007.