Dominique Marcadet is a professor of computer science at CentraleSupélec. He graduated from Supélec in 1984 and started his research as an assistant professor on object-oriented approaches, initially on languages, and later on models. He started a collaboration with EDF R&D on the CIM standard in 2002. He submitted to EDF the idea to use MDE tools for processing CIM XML files in 2008, it gave birth to CimClipse, the predecessor of RiseClipse.