Jean-Michel Bruel received his Ph.D. from the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) in December 1996. He was associate professor at the University of Pau from 1997 to 2008. Currently Full Professor in the MACAO team (Modèles, Aspects, Composants pour des Architectures à Objets) of the IRIT (Institit de Recheche en Informatique de Toulouse) CNRS laboratory. His research areas include development of distributed, component-based applications, methods integration, and on the use of formal methods in the Component-Based Software Engineering context. He has defended his "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" in December 2006 and recently obtained a full professor position at the University of To