Francoise Sailhan is professor at IMT-Atlantique. Her research interest in computer science involves networked and distributed systems and cybersecurity. Prior, she was associate professor at CNAM and external collaborator of the Mimove research team at INRIA. She was a visiting researcher at SRI during summer 2012 and prior she spent one year in the University of Franche Comté and 2 years (2005-2007) in the Ericsson Ireland Research Center (EIRC) as a Marie Curie fellow; her work including the chair of the invention disclosure board of Ericsson Ireland.