Dominique Gendreau obtained the Ph.D. degrees in automatic and production at the Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1991. He joined the University of Franche-Comté as an Assistant Professor of mechanics science in 1994. After converting theme, he became member of the Automatic Control and Micro-Mechatronic Systems Department of FEMTO-ST Research Institute in Besançon since 2002. He currently works in the micromanufacturing systems, particular in the modular structure design.
He worked in the "Pronomia" ANR Project on the modular architecture. After he collaborated with the LIFC lab in the "Musine" region project, and now he has working in the second phasis the this project, named "Musine2". He will collaborate with a team in a new ANR Project named "Smart Blocks".