Said Elias is currently employed as an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at LUH Hannover. Prior to this role, he served as a Scientific Associate Editor at Elsevier. He gained extensive experience in health monitoring of railway bridges during his tenure as a researcher at UTWENTE. Earlier in his career, he held the position of a postdoctoral research scholar at the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, University of Iceland.

He earned his doctoral (PhD) degree in 2017 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, specializing in earthquake and wind engineering. His research interests encompass resilient infrastructures, risk assessment, structural health monitoring, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, wind engineering, and vibration control of structures. To date, he has authored over 30 conference papers and 40 journal papers within these research domains.

He is editor in Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction of ASCE. Also, he is associate editor of several journals such as Shock and Vibration, Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control.