Nicolas Eckert received the Ph.D. degree in environmental statistics from AgroParisTech, Paris, France, in 2007. Since 2008, he has been a Researcher with INRAE Grenoble, and has been an co-head of the mountain risk team since 2018. He is also Task Officer in charges of environmental risks for the AQUA department with INRAE, and for the ALLENVI research federation. He serves as an Associate Chief Editor for Journal of Glaciology and as Scientific Editor for Cold Regions Science and Technology. His research is at the crossroads between geosciences and statistical modelling, with applications to mountain risks, mountain climatology and glaciers. Additional interests in the socio-historical component of risk makes him involved in interdisciplinary research addressing all dimensions of mountain risks.