Christian is a Lead Scientist in the Building Systems group at FPInnovations where his main research topics are fire resistance, reaction to fire, performance-based fire design, fire modelling and fire safety engineering. He participated in many performance-based designs allowing to build timber buildings that would have otherwise been required to be of noncombustible construction. He is the author of numerous technical publications and research reports on fire performance of timber elements and buildings. Moreover, he is actively involved in several technical committees on fire tests, fire safety engineering and timber design, such as ULC, ASTM and CSA. He is currently the ISO/TC 92 Canadian Mirror Committee Chair on fire safety, Head of delegation at ISO/TC92/SC4 related to international standards on fire safety engineering, and SC4/WG12 Convenor on the performance of structures in fire. He participates in many overseas standardization activities, namely the United States, Australia, China and Japan. Finally, he is an Invited Professor at Université Laval where he teaches a full course on fire safety in buildings and supervise graduate students. Christian is a member of OIQ and SFPE, and scientific committees for WCTE, Structures in Fire, Wood & Fire Safety and Fire Safety of Façades.