Ioana Manolescu is a researcher at INRIA Futurs, in Saclay, France, since 2002. Her research work is centered around query optimization for XML, in particular on algebraic optimization and in view-based rewriting. Ioana is also working on languages and models for distributed Web data management, in particular on algebraic optimization for the ActiveXML language. She has also contributed to the WebML project in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, Italy.