Miguel Bastos Araújo#
| Membership Number: | 7227 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maraujolab.eu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5107-7265 |
| X: | @Araujo_lab |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/cBiodivUe |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-bastos-araújo-820a83165/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - 2025 Visiting Scholar, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
- 2015 - present Research Professor, MNCN-CSIC
- 2020 - present Professor (Chair), Univ. Évora
- 2015 - present Honorary Visiting Professor, Imperial College London
- 2009 - 2020 Visiting Research Professor (Chair), Univ. Évora
- 2011 - 2019Visiting Full Professor, Univ. Copenhagen
- 2013 - 2014 Full Professor (Chair in Biogeography), Imperial College London
- 2007 - 2015 Research Scientist, MNCN-CSIC
- 2006 Visiting Associate Professor, Univ. Copenhagen
- 2005 - 2007 Ramón and Cajal Researcher, MNCN-CSIC
- 2004 - 2005 Marie-Curie Fellow & Linacre College Fellow, Oxford University
- 2001 - 2003 Post-Doctoral researcher, CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier
- 1997 - 2000 Doctoral researcher, Natural History Museum London
- 1996 - 1997 Research Assistant, Univ. Évora
Fields of Scholarship
- Ecology
- Biogeography
- Macroecology
- Biodiversity
- Conservation biology
- Species distribution modelling
- Climate change
Honours and Awards
- 2024 British Ecological Society March Award on Climate Change Research (2024).
- 2023 Elected corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2023).
- 2023 Visão’s Green Prize for Research (2023).
- 2020 Honorary Membership of the Portuguese College of Biologists
- 2019 National Environmental Award “Fernando Pereira”
- 2019 European Ecological Federation Ernst Haeckel Prize
- 2018 Pessoa Prize
- 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 CSIC Merit Research Award
- 2016 Rey Jaume I Award
- Yearly since 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Scientist
- 2014 Royal Society, Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2013 Global Biodiversity Information Facility Ebbe Nielsen Prize
- 2013 International Biogeography Society MacArthur & Wilson Award
- 2007 Contributor to 4th IPCC Report sharing Nobel Peace Prize
