Christophe Ley

Christophe Ley is a Luxembourgish statistician, and an author and editor of books on directional statistics and sports statistics. He is president of the Luxembourg Statistical Society.

Education and career Ley obtained his PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles under the supervision of Davy Paindaveine.

After his PhD, Christophe Ley was chargé de recherche of the National Fund for Scientific Research at the Université libre de Brussels until 2015, when he became assistant professor at Ghent University. He joined the University of Luxembourg in 2021 as associate professor.

Selected publications Ley is the co-author, with Thomas Verdebout, of the book Modern Directional Statistics (CRC Press, 2017) and the co-editor with Verdebout of Applied Directional Statistics: Modern Methods and Case Studies (CRC Press, 2018).

He is also the co-editor, with Yves Dominicy, of Statistics Meets Sports: What We Can Learn from Sports Data (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023).