Biografia Daniela Florescu Daniela Florescu received her Ph.D. in 1996, on "Search Spaces for Object Oriented Query Optimization". She is now a researcher at INRIA Rocquencourt, in the Caravel project. Dr. Florescu is among the authors of the XML-QL query language and the main designer of the Strudel web-site management system. Her current research interests include XML technologies (query languages, storage, query optimization), static query optimization, data-intensive web site management, and data cleaning. Daniela Florescu is also a member of the W3C working group on new proposal submitted to the W3C working group.