Richard Kenyon received his PhD in 1990 at Princeton University under the direction of William Thurston. Dr. Kenyon held a postdoctoral position at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and then a position at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Grenoble, Lyon and Paris. He was appointed as a Canada Research Chair at UBC in 2004. He won a CNRS bronze medal in 1999 and the Rollo Davidson prize in 2001. His research interests are in statistical mechanics, combinatorics, and discrete geometry.