Prof. Eric Bonjour is a full professor specialized in systems engineering, at the University of Lorraine / Graduate School of Innovation and Systems Engineering (ENSGSI). He received his PhD degree in Automation and Industrial Engineering in 1996. His main research interests touch upon the fields of innovation (mainly, adoption of innovations), model-based systems engineering (product architecture, safe systems engineering), and knowledge management. He has supervised 13 PhD theses related to these topics. He is supervising 4 new PhD theses. He has been a referee in 80 PhD evaluation committees. He is an associate editor of high quality journals: Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (IF = 7 ; since 2012) and Knowledge-Based Systems (IF = 8 ; since 2013). He has been a Vice-chair of the French chapter of INCOSE (INternational Council Of Systems Engineering), responsible for Research–Training topics from 2012 to 2017. He is a member of the steering committee of the National Research Council GDR MACS/CNRS since 2020. In 2015, he received the lNCOSE Outstanding Service Award 2015. He was the co-chair of the Program Committee of international conferences dedicated to systems engineering: CSD&M Paris, 2015 (Complex Systems Design & Management); CSD&M Paris, 2018; IEEE SoSE Paris, 2018 (System of Systems Engineering). In 2019, he has co-edited a special issue in Systems Engineering journal. He has published more than 90 papers for conferences, journals and books.