Alexandre Antonelli#
Photo: Magnus Bergström, Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
| Membership Number: | 7021 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/people/alexandre-antonelli http://www.araca-project.org https://antonelli-lab.net/ https://www.antonelli-foundations.org/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1842-9297 |
| Twitter: | @antonelli_lab |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/alexandre.antonelli.7 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-antonelli/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Feb 2019 - present Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Jun 2015 - present Full Professor in Systematics and Biodiversity, University of Gothenburg
- Jan 2017 - Mar 2019 Founder & Director, Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre
- Aug 2010 - Jan 2019 Scientific Curator, Gothenburg Botanical Garden
- Jan 2016 - Dec 2018 Science Advisor, Universeum Science Centre
- Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 Cisneros Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
- Apr 2014 - Jun 2015 Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, University of Gothenburg
- Jan 2012 - Apr 2014 Researcher, University of Gothenburg
- Jan 2009 - Jul 2010 Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich
- July 2003 - November 2008 Assistant teacher, Botanical Institute, University of Gothenburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Tropics
- Systematics
- Biogeography
- Biodiversity
- Conservation
- Methods development
- Evolutionary biology
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Elected Foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2023 - 2028 Visiting Professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2023 Distinguished Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President’s International Fellowship Initiative
- 2023 Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- 2022 Senckenberg Prize for Nature Research
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Featured on Web of Science/Clarivate ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list
- 2020 Visiting Professor in Biology, University of Oxford
- 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
- 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, GBIF, 1st prize (with A. Zizka, J. Klein, S. Lindberg, O. Rydén), 1st prize (2020, with I. Ondo, S. Pironon, W. Thuiller, M. Gueguen), 2nd prize (2016) [with A. Zizka and D. Silvestro]
- 2018 Cisneros Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University
- 2017 ‘Sweden's 100 coolest researchers’, Swedish Science Festival
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
- 2016 Future Research Leader, Foundation for Strategic Research, Sweden
- 2016 - 2019 Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Sweden
- 2013 - 2020 Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2013 - 2017 European Research Council Starting Grant
- 2015 The Faculty of Science Research Award, University of Gothenburg
- 2014 Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
