Joris Meys is a statistical consultant in the Biostatistics Department at the University of Ghent.  He is the co-author (with Andrie de Vries) of R for Dummies (Wiley, 2012).  Joris is an accomplished R programmer, and produces R packages both for specific research projects and, via R-Forge, R packages for more general application.  His statistical expertise is in the areas of ecotoxicology, analysis of environmental data, clinical researchand meta analysis.