Miguel Bastos Araújo

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Miguel Bastos Araújo is a biogeographer dedicated to understanding how Life distributes in space and time, and why. He employs a wide range of data-driven and modelling approaches to explore how climate influences the distributions of species and controls complex properties and dynamics of communities. His research primarily focuses on the impacts of past, present, and future climate changes on Earth’s biological systems, using these changes as a spatiotemporal laboratory to deepen our understanding of ecological transformations. Additionally, he contributes to the development of theoretical frameworks that explain the underlying mechanisms governing biodiversity and ecosystem responses to climate change. Beyond biogeography, he maintains a strong interest in geopolitics and in questions at the interface between science, policy, and politics—particularly how scientific evidence is translated into public decisions, and how institutions and political incentives shape environmental governance.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Professor in Biogeography and Global Change, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
  • –present
    Professor Chair, University of Évora

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Évora, Habilitation in Biology
  • 2000 
    University College London, PhD Geography
  • 1996 
    University College London, MSc Conservation
  • 1995 
    NOVA University of Lisbon, BSc Geography and Regional Planning

Honours

Marsh Award for Climate change (2024), EEF Ernst Haeckel Prize (2019), Pessoa Prize (2018), Rey Jaime I Prize (2016), TIBS MacArthur & Wilson Award (2013), GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Prize (2013)

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