Léopold Simar became Professor of Statistics at the
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1992, after moving from
the Faculté des Sciences Economiques Sociales et Politiques (FSESP)
at Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels, where he had
served as Professor of Statistics since 1974 and as Dean of the
FSESP from 1978 to 1990. He founded the Institute of Statistics at
the UCL in 1992, and chaired the Institute from its creation until
2004. During this period, the Institute became recognized as a
leading center for research in mathematical statistics. Over his
long and successful career, Léopold Simar has worked on a variety
of topics in statistics, including count-data models, Bayesian
estimation and inference, and frontier estimation. He is regarded
as one of the world's leading experts on frontier estimation; his
work in this area has found application in a broad variety of
fields, including efficiency studies in industry, air traffic
control, the research output of universities, insurance companies,
etc.
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