Mr. Xavier Legrand received his MSc degree (engineer diploma) in textile engineering in 1995 from ENSAIT (French Textile Institute). He then pursued his PhD at Lille University under the supervision of Professor C. Vasseur. In 2000 he obtained his PhD degree for textile fabric modeling. The modeling approach based on mass- spring method was used to account for pattern of interlacements of yarns in woven fabric. He was an Invited Research Fellow at UNSW – Sydney, Australia for 7 months in 2004 on the topic of Fiber Steering optimization by Genetic Algorithm for composite material. In 2014, he defended is habilitation of research leading. During 6 months of 2015, he was been invited at DUT – Durban, South Africa for banana fiber composite research and pedagogic improvement of textile department. He is a full professor at ENSAIT since 2020. Pr. Xavier Legrand has authored or co-authored more the 37 research papers into international publications, 5 book chapters and 23 patents. He has supervised more than 32 MSc studies and 19 PhD works.