Frédéric Dias received a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 1986. He is affiliated both with Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENSPS) and University College Dublin (UCD). He leads the joint ENSPS/UCD wave group. In 2012, he received an advanced grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on extreme wave events. In 2014, he received a proof of concept grant from the ERC to work on extreme wave measurement. In 2019, he received a second advanced grant from the ERC to work on wave breaking. In 2023, he received a second proof of concept grant from the ERC to use wireless wave sensor technology deployed on a connected buoy to transmit raw data of the sea state at a given location. Prof. Frédéric Dias was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2016, of the Academy of Europe in 2017 and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2019.