Professionally, Jean-Marc Jézéquel worked as a computer scientist at the University of Rennes, France.

His research contributions have laid the foundations of the theory of Model-driven architecture.

From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of IRISA and then President of Informatics Europe.

From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of IRISA, a 800 people public research lab in informatics.

[2] In 2020, he received the Career Award from the IEEE/ACM Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems conference, which recognizes his long-standing scientific contributions to the MDE community and his exemplary activity for the younger members of the MODELS community.