I am a senior researcher at INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, working at LIRMM
I head the Zenith research team at INRIA, which deals with scientific data management
I also head the workpackage on data and knowledge integration in the Institut de Biologie Computationnelle
What is data? (in french) Les données en question. I have been awarded the 2014 Inria - Académie des Sciences - Dassault Systems Innovation Prize. Principles of Distributed Database Systems - Third Edition has now been released in Chinese. Translation by Prof. Li-Zhu Zhou published by Tsinghua University Press.