Jean-Michel Bruel is head of the SM@RT team of the IRIT CNRS laboratory. His research areas include development of software intensive Cyber-Physical Systems, methods/model/language integration, with a main focus on requirements and Model-Based Systems Engineering. He has defended his “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” in December 2006 and obtained in 2008 a full professor position at the University of Toulouse. He has been head of the Computer Science department of the Technical Institute of Blagnac from 2009 to 2012.