Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive
CNRS UMR 5558 
Université Claude Bernard Lyon I 
43 Bd 11 Novembre 1918 
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Phone: 	+33 4 72 43 27 57
Fax: 	+33 4 72 43 13 88

E-mail : stephane.dray(at)univ-lyon1.fr

I am research scientist at the CNRS based in Université Lyon 1 (Biometry and Evolutionary Biology Lab, UMR 5558).

I am a statistical ecologist (aka biometrician, biostatistician, ecological statistician, quantitative ecologist, numerical ecologist, etc.). My work consists in developing novel statistical methods for analyzing biological data with a special emphasis on multivariate analysis and spatial statistics. I am mainly interested in understanding the role of multiple factors (e.g., species traits, environment) that influence the (spatial) structure of ecological communities and control beta diversity.

I am contributor/author of several software (freeware, open source) including the ade4 package for

which provides statistical and graphical tools for the analysis of multivariate data.

News

03/2013	Rob Freckleton and Bob O'Hara kindly invited me to join the Associate Editor board of Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
03/2013	Martin et al. paper just published in last issue of Journal of Animal Ecology.
03/2013	Reino et al. paper just published in last issue of Diversity and Distributions.
01/2013	Olivier Gimenez kindly invited me to join the organizing committee of the International Statistical Ecology Conference 2014.
01/2013	I am member of the organizing committee of the R Meeting 2013 (Lyon, 27-28 june 2013).
12/2012	No news is good news ;-).
09/2012	Kleyer et al. paper just published in last issue of Journal of Vegetation Science.
08/2012	Dray et al. paper just published in last issue of Ecological Monographs.
08/2012	Peres-Neto et al. paper just published in last issue of Ecology.
08/2012	Münkemüller et al. paper just published in last issue of Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
07/2012	ter Braak et al. paper just published in last issue of Ecology.
07/2012	Dan Griffith kindly invited me to join the scientific advisory board of the Spatial Statistics 2013 conference.
07/2012	I will be at the 1ères rencontres R (Bordeaux, 2-3/07/2012). I co-author the talks of Stéphanie Bougeard and Alice Julien-Laferrière.
06/2012	Covain et al. paper just published in last issue of Cybium.
06/2012	The DECOVIR (Diversity and Environmental Control of Prasinoviruses) project coordinated by Yves Desdevises will be funded by the ANR. A postdoctoral position will be available.