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Education

PhD in statistical ecology (2020-2024)
Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology (University Lyon 1), Villeurbanne (France)
Supervisors: Stéphane Dray, Hervé Fritz
- Statistical methods and software tools to analyze and infer ecological networks and process multi-species data
- Ecological networks, multivariate statistics (correspondence analyses), multivariate Hawkes process, camera trap data analysis, African ecology, Software development with R
MSc “Ecology, Evolution, Genomics” (2019-2020)
University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne (France)
- Fundamentals of ecology, ecosystem functioning, niche and neutral biodiversity theories
Master of Engineering “Bioinformatics and modeling” (2017-2020)
INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne (France)
- Statistics, programming, dynamical modeling, genomics

Professional experience

Postdoc in conservation ecology (2024-present)
FRB-Cesab, Montpellier (France)
Supervisors: Colin Fontaine, Reto Schmucki
- DRAGON project: Dragonflies as bellwether for the human impact on interface ecosystems
Complementary teaching activity (2020-2022)
University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne (France)
- Teaching statistics and R programming at an undergraduate level (64 hours a year)
Research internship in statistical ecology (January-June 2020)
Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology, Villeurbanne (France)
- Inference and analysis of African mammals co-occurrence networks from camera trap data
Bioinformatics internship (May-August 2019)
MaaT Pharma, Lyon (France)
- Design and creation of a database (PostgreSQL) and development of a web application for visualization and analysis of metagenomics data (R Shiny)

Skills

Programming
- R, Python, C++
- SQL
- Git version control system
- Unix command line
- Use of a computing cluster with Slurm
- LateX, Markdown, Quarto, HTML/CSS
Statistics & data analysis
- Multivariate statistics
- Statistical data analysis with R
- Parametric and non-parametric statistics
- Generalized linear models
- Network analyses
- Spatial analyses with R
- Point processes
- Bayesian statistics
- Occupancy modeling
Ecology
- Community ecology
- Interaction networks
- African ecology
- Interaction niches
- Camera traps

Languages

Fluent French (native language)
Advanced English (C1 level, TOEIC)
Upper-intermediate German (B2 level)

Publications

Trait matching without traits: using correspondence analysis to investigate the latent structure of interaction networks

Nicvert, L., Fritz, H., & Dray, S. (2025). Trait matching without traits: Using correspondence analysis to investigate the latent structure of interaction networks. Peer Community Journal, 5. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.580

Statistical methods and software tools to analyze and infer ecological networks and process multi-species data

Nicvert, L. (2024). Statistical methods and software tools to analyze and infer ecological networks and process multi-species data [PhD thesis, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1]. https://theses.hal.science/tel-04751639

Using the multivariate Hawkes process to study interactions between multiple species from camera trap data

Nicvert, L., Donnet, S., Keith, M., Peel, M., Somers, M. J., Swanepoel, L. H., Venter, J., Fritz, H., & Dray, S. (2024). Using the multivariate Hawkes process to study interactions between multiple species from camera trap data. Ecology, 105(4), e4237. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4237

Other academic activities

Co-animation of lab meetings (April 2025 - present)
FRB-Cesab, Montpellier, France
- Planning and animation of bimonthly lab meetings
Co-organization of the ecology department seminars (2023-2024)
Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology, Villeurbanne (France)
- Planning and animation of monthly department seminars
PhD students representative (2021-2022)
Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology, Villeurbanne (France)
- Representing PhD students and postdocs in monthly lab meetings

Scientific popularization

Organisation for the Pint of Science festival (2025)
Montpellier, France
- Planning and animation for 3 scientific popularization events
Scientific game jam (6-7 April 2024)
Lyon, France
- Creation of a video game about plant-frugivore interactions, Frugivora [in French], with a team of developers and graphic designers
Volunteering with the Projet Pangolin association (2020-2022)
Remotely
- Scientific illustrations (e.g. on this page)
- Blog posts on models in ecology and participatory science [in French]
- Animation of workshops with schoolchildren and high school students
BARCamp (2022)
BU Lyon 1, Villeurbanne (France)
- Oral presentation about my PhD subject (recording available here [in French])
Décrypthèse (2022)
E2M2 doctoral school, Villeurbanne (France)
- Conference of the PhD students of the E2M2 doctoral school
Conférences embarquées (29 August 2020 & 28 August 2021)
CNRS Rhône Auvergne, Lyon, (France)
- Talking about science on rowing boats

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