Sylvie Shoba Dijkstra-Soudarissanane has a PhD degree in the domain of XR volumetric content. She is the lead scientist of the TNO Early Research Program on Social and Zero distance XR for the Metaverse. She focuses her research on network based XR media processing, which involves networking aspects as 5G/6G, SDN/NFV, edge/cloud computing; but also, 3D media processing such as point clouds and light field. She coordinated and guided her teams that built several end-to-end XR pipelines catering for specific use case requirements like XR business meetings or expertise at a distance, bridging the gap of remote locations and real-time communication.