Dan Goreac is an Associate Professor in the School of Actuarial Science in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He obtained a PhD in applied mathematics from the Université de Brest, France in 2007 and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Université de Paris-Est, France in 2013. Before joining Université Laval, he held the position of Senior Lecturer at Université Gustave Eiffel, France (2008-2024) and the position of Professor (Distinguished Young Scholar) at Shandong Weihai University, China (2019-2024).

His research focuses on the family of optimal control problems for deterministic and stochastic dynamics, including :
- Relaxation methods (linear programming) ;
- Optimal control methods for piecewise deterministic Markov processes and their applications to gene networks and epidemics;
- Insurance and reinsurance problems (optimality, verification, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations and algorithms);
- Controllability of stochastic systems (stochastic differential equations, stochastic partial differential equations, mean-field systems);
- State constraints for infinite-dimensional dynamics;
- Applications in physics, gene networks, epidemics and insurance.

Dan Goreac has co-authored over 50 scientific articles in prestigious journals, and successfully supervised several doctoral theses and master's dissertations. He is a member of several editorial and expert committees.