Prof. Dr. MSc. Stéphane Galland is the Head and Executive Director of the research laboratory on Distributed Knowledge and Distributed Artificial Intelligence – CIAD UR 7733 – of “Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard” – UTBM (21 full-time Researchers, 23 PhD students, 3 Postdocs, 16 Research engineers) from 2024 to 2028. He has co-created CIAD in 2019 and was its Deputy Director from 2019 to 2023. Since 2023, he is expert member chosen and appointed by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion to the National Evaluation and Selection Committee – COMEVAL – for all the French researchers associated to this Ministry (~500 Researchers). He was also the Head of the international programs ARFITEC-17-10 and ARFITEC-19-11 from 2017 to 2022 related to the exchanges of Researchers and engineering student between UTBM and Argentinian universities. After being graduated in Formal Computer Science of “Université de Franche-Comté” in 1998, he received his PhD in Computer Science from “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne” in 2001. Between his PhD graduation and the creation of CIAD, he was the Head of the research groups on agent-based simulation of the research laboratory “Systèmes et Transport” of UTBM from 2022 to 2016; and on smart environments of the research laboratory “Electronique, Informatique et Image” of Burgundy University and UTBM from 2017 to 2018.His personal research interests are focused on the original domain of “Agent-oriented Software Engineering” and “Agent-based Simulation”, two sub-fields of artificial intelligence, applied to Transportation, Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Energy, Industry 4.0 and e-Health issues. He is one of the creators and major authors of the ASPECS design and implementation methodology, the SARL agent programming language and the Janus software agent platform.