Eric Duviella received a "diplôme d'ingénieur" from Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes (ENIT) and a M.S. from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT), both in 2001. In 2005, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Systems from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse. From September 2004 to August 2006, he worked at Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes as temporary assistant professor (ATER). In September 2006, he achieved a PostDoctoral position in the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal (Lagis) in Lille. Since January 2007, he held a permanent position of assistant professor in the department of Automatic Control and Computer Sciences at Ecole des Mines de Douai, France. In 2014, he obtained a HDR ('Habilité à Diriger des Recherches'). Since November 2015, he is Professor of the Institut Mines Telecom Lille Douai.