BIO
Miguel Bastos Araújo is a Research Professor in the Department of Biogeography and Global Change at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) and Head of the Rui Nabeiro Chair of Biodiversity in a visiting capacity at the University of Évora (Portugal). His research on how climate determines the distributions of species and controls complex properties of self-organized community dynamics has resulted in reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Council of Europe and the governments of Spain and Portugal, among others. He has held research and teaching positions at Imperial College London, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Oxford, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Natural History Museum in London. Listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in Environment and Ecology since 2014, he is a Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and holds the Ernst Haeckel Award of the European Ecological Federation, among other distinctions.