Luc Brun got his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1996. Since 2004, he is the Professor in Computer Science at ENSICAEN. He is currently serving as chairman of the membership committee of IAPR and is the head of NormaSTIC in close collaboration with Stéphane Canu (co chair). His research interest concern structural pattern recognition and segmentation with applications in chemo/bio informatics, video analysis, shape recognition