He received his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the University of Grenoble 1. He is a former member of the LIG Adele research group (Grenoble) and later the Distributed Software Engineering Section in the Department of Computing of Imperial College London. His research interests include the use of software engineering to simplify the development of highly dynamic pervasive applications. Johann Bourcier has co-authored 18 international peer-reviewed conference, journal and book chapters in venue such as TAAS, GECCO, SEAMS, WICSA, SCC, …