Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
After receiving his master's degree from the Sorbonne and Sciences Po, he earned a Ph.D from the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. As a fellow of the École française de Rome, he initiated the study of socialism in France and Italy therefore becoming one of the first comparative historians in France. He was invited to the TU-Berlin in Germany as a guest professor as the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, under the supervision of Jürgen Kocka and (ZVGE). D'Almeida also spent two years in Berlin at the Marc Bloch Center. Upon his return to Paris he was promoted to director of the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP CNRS) and was then elected to be full professor at Panthéon-Assas University. He is now the director of Master Media and Globalization at the University. He was appointed publisher at Albin Michel in January 2015.