Houda Driss obtained a doctorate in architecture in 2017, graduating from the Doctoral School of Architectural Sciences and Engineering at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis (ENAU). She was a university teacher from 2011 to 2015 at ENAU and from 2015 to 2021 at the Private Polytechnic School Ibn Khaldoun. She is a part of the research unit PAE3C (Architectural and Environmental Heritage: Knowledge, Understanding, Conservation) at ENAU, and a member of the Technical Referee Committee for the magazine Sustainable Mediterranean Construction, Land Culture, Research and Technology. She is also a consultant to the Tunisian Mediterranean Association for historical, social and economic studies.