Daniel Dias his Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Lyon, France. He finished his PhD in 2000 on numerical modeling of tunnel face reinforcement at INSA of Lyon, France. From 2000 to 2011, he was an associate professor at INSA of Lyon, France. For more than 10 years, he has worked on geomechanics (numerical and experimental modeling; the reliability of geotechnical structures). Since 2011, he has been a professor of geotechnical engineering at the Grenoble Alpes University, France. He was the head of the geotechnical and civil engineering department from 2012 to 2017. He is now the head of the international affairs department at the Polytech Grenoble engineering school.