Lisa Nicvert

Welcome!

I am an ecologist trained in statistics and modelling. My research interests are broad, and they include interspecific interactions, niche modelling or camera trap data analysis. I am also deeply interested in statistical developments and in reproducible tools for for ecological data analysis.

I specialized in statistical ecology both because I have a fundamental interest in understanding the processes structuring ecosystems, and because I am convinced that quantitative ecological studies are needed to mitigate the current biodiversity crisis.

Since November 2024, I work as a postdocoral fellow at FRB-Cesab. Together with the consortium of the DRAGON project, I investigate the response of European dragonflies to anthropogenic pressures through occupancy models.

During my PhD (defended in 2024), I developed statistical methods and software tools to analyze ecological networks and community data. In a first part, I extended multivariate methods to study trait matching in ecological networks. Secondly, I tested a new point process model to infer interspecific interactions from camera trap data. Finally, I developed software tools to analyze camera trap data.