Franck Barbier wrote his Computer Science (CS) thesis about the executability of object-oriented finite state machines at the University of Chambery (France) in 1991. He was an associate professor at the University of Nantes (France) from 1991-1999 and has been a full professor at the University of Pau (France) since 2000. Professor Barbier was the head of the CS research department of the University of Pau from 2000-2004 and deputy head of the Information and Communication Technologies department of the French Research Agency (ANR, ""The French NSF"") from 2009-2012. In the 1990s, Professor Barbier carried out three software realizations: PauWare (main author), BLU AGE (participation only), and Intelligent Software Factory (main author), sold by the Reich Technologies company. Over the last two decades, he has had approximately 50 large-scale responsibilities (training, consultancy, etc.) in international companies, including acting as a scientific consultant to Reich Technologies, one of the 17 companies that built UML 1.1 at the OMG in 1997. To that extent, he was also co-author of the documents submitted by the Australian DSTC consortium for the building of UML 2 in 2003, and from 2006-2015 he was a scientific consultant at Netfective Technology, the editor of the BLU AGE modeldriven development tool suite.

Professor Barbier has supervised 15 computer science theses in France, Spain, and Sweden; published 6 books (as editor or author); and written approximately 140 articles in refereed journals, books, conference proceedings, and professional magazines, including e-magazines. His research activities and interests include object/component/service modeling through UML and the State Chart XML W3 standard, model-driven development, software design, test and runtime management for mobile and Internet software, software adaptation, executable models, and models at runtime.