Daniel is cross-appointed to the Faculties of Engineering and Human Kinetics, and is a member of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Biomedical Engineering. He holds a Master's degree in Biomechanics from McMaster University in Canada, after which he became the laboratory director of the Let People Move clinical biomechanics laboratory in Perugia-Italy. He then returned to academia and was awarded a PhD in Sports Medicine from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm Sweden, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware in the USA.