Philippe Merle graduated from the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Lille (LIFL) in 1992. He was involved in BOX : A Model and a Language for Concurrent and Distributed Object-Oriented Programming. Since 1993 he has been a postgraduate student in the LIFL, the subject of his Ph.D. being a Generic Object-Oriented Dynamic Environment (GOODE) for dynamic cooperative applications using CORBA. He is a member of the OSACA project, a part of the R&D program on Advanced Communication called "Ganymede" and supported by "Region Nord/Pas-de-Calais". He also gives some courses about distributed client/server programming and CORBA at a graduate and postgraduate level.