Christopher McCray holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University. From 2020 to 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM) and at Ouranos, where he studied the occurrence of freezing rain in the current and future climate in a set of regional climate simulations.

He joined the Climate simulations and analyzes team at Ouranos in 2021.