!!Miguel Bastos Araújo - Biography
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Miguel B. Araújo is recognised as one of the world leaders in the study of climate change effects on biodiversity. His research has been critical to the establishment of current best practices for predicting biodiversity change through time and for assessing the broader consequences of human activities in the natural world. While his methodological work has inspired thousands of scientists, his assessments of climate change effects on biodiversity have influenced public policies from local to global scales. Araújo’s work seats comfortably at the crossroads of multiple disciplines, with key contributions in biogeography, climate change ecology, conservation planning, macroecology, and biodiversity modelling.\\
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The scientific contributions of Araújo can be appraised by his publication record (ca. 300 publications), his scientific impact (listed yearly as ‘highly cited’ by Thomson Reuters since 2014), the academics he mentored (nearly 60 researchers and postgraduate graduate students), and the funding for research projects and tenders he helped to raise (>€80 million).\\
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Prof. Araújo won several prestigious awards, including the British Ecological Society Marsh Award for Climate Change Research (2024), the European Ecological Federation Ernst Haeckel Prize (2019), awarded to “senior scientists that contributed to advancing European ecological research”; the National Environmental Prize of Portugal (2019) awarded to “people with important contributions to environmental protection”; the Pessoa Prize (2018), awarded to “citizens whose contributions have been particularly relevant in the domains of arts, literature, or science” (first time awarded to environmental sciences); Rey Jaime I Prize (2016) selected by a panel including three Nobel prizes and awarded by the King of Spain to researchers who contributed “to the improvement of the ecological environment”; the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award  (2014); the International Biogeography Society Mac Arthur & Wilson Award (2013), given to individuals for “notable, innovative contributions to biogeography”; and the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) Ebbe Nielsen Prize (2013) awarded to researchers “combining biosystematics and biodiversity informatics in an exciting and novel way”. \\
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Since 2014, Prof. Araújo serves as Editor-in-Chief of “Ecography”. He is Chair of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology’s Scientific Council for Natural Sciences, vice-Chair of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity’s Jury (supporting Angela Merkel as Chair), member evaluation panels for ERC advanced grants and NATO Science for Peace and Security ISEG, and member of the Portuguese Council for the Environment and Sustainability. Wrote strategy documents on biodiversity, protected areas, and climate change, for the Ministry of the Environment and Climatic Action of Portugal and the Council of Europe and was lead author of the 4th IPCC Report’s section on climate change impact on european biodiversity.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit mbastosaraujo}][{ALLOW upload mbastosaraujo}][{ALLOW comment All}]