CRM Personnel

Octav Cornea obtained his PhD in 1993 from the University of Rochester and is a Professor at the Université de Montréal since January 2003. He works in topology and geometry. He was Research Professor at the MSRI (Berkeley) in the Fall of 2009 and a member of the IAS (Princeton) in 2015-2016 when he also held a Simons Fellowship from the Simons Foundation. He was an invited speaker at the Inaugural Mathematical Congress of the Americas in 2013. He serves as Director of the CRM since 2021.

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Benoit Durand-Jodoin has been working as a university administrator since 2012. He worked at UQAM from 2012-2016, where initially served as Administrative Attaché at the School of Visual and Media Arts, and following that, took on the role of overseeing the university’s audiovisual investments and systems installations for teaching and research. He joined the CRM team in 2022. Benoit holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Université de Montréal and a master’s degree in project management from UQAM.

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Louise Poirier is honourary professor at the Department of Didactics of Université de Montréal. A former Dean of the Faculty of Education, she is a specialist in mathematics education, and has turned towards collaborative research in preschool and elementary school. She led a number of collaborative research projects with schools, particularly with the Kativik School Board and the Inuit community, with the Support Program at the Montreal School as well as with the Regional Academy of the Guelmim region in Morocco. In 2021, she was named a Distinguished Member of the Ordre de l’excellence de l’éducation du Québec.