Dear colleagues at the CRM, dear colleagues at the IRL,

My term as director of the IRL (or UMI) comes to an end after an additional year, and Emmanuel Royer will take over on September 1. Emmanuel is a professor at Université Clermont-Auvergne, where he headed the Blaise Pascal Mathematics Laboratory from 2014 to 2018 before serving as deputy scientific director of the CNRS National Institute for Mathematical Sciences and their Interactions (INSMI) from 2018 to 2023. Since his PhD, prepared under Étienne Fouvry and Philippe Michel and defended in 2001, he has worked in number theory, focusing in particular on modular forms and related functions.