On May 15, 2003, André Caillé, Vice-rector, Research, at the Université de Montréal, officially approved the nomination of Christian Léger as Director of the Centre de recherches mathématiques. His appointment of one year started June1, 2003.
Christian Léger completed his bachelor degree in mathematics at McGill University in 1983. Five years later, he obtained a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. His career started in 1988 at the Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle of the Université de Montréal. In 1994, he joined the Département de mathématiques et de statistique and became an associate professor in 1999.
His involvement in various associations of statisticians began from the outset of his career. He was a member of several committees at The Institute of Mathematical Statistics of the American Statistical Association and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) where he, notably, chaired the Research Committee. He sat on the SSC Board of directors and its Executive Committee as Secretary. His scientific leadership has been recognized by the NSERC where he was nominated on the Statistics Discovery Grants selection Committee as well as at Statistics Canada where he sat on the Statistics Methods Advisory Committee.
Member of the CRM since 1996, he has acquired skills organizing scientific activities. He has organized research workshops, founded the CRM-ISM Colloquium in statistics and edited a book published jointly by the CRM and The Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Furthermore, he has gained administration experience by serving as Deputy Director (2000-2001) at the CRM. He is presently at the helm of the Statistics Laboratory. His involvement in the scientific community has taken a multitude of paths. He has organized sessions at the SSC Annual Meeting and was member of the Program Committee of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2002 in New York where over 4700 statisticians met. He is also President of the Local Arrangements Committee for the SSC Annual Meeting to be held in Montreal in 2004.
Finally, his research in Statistics focuses on the Resampling Methods, particularly their applications in Adaptive Methods.
June 18, 2003