Biogeography ▪ Conservation ▪ Evolution ▪ Macroecology ▪ Modelling ▪ Planning

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

  • Full name: Miguel Bastos Araújo
  • Date of birth: 24th April 1969
  • Place of birth: Brussels, Belgium
  • Citizenship: Portuguese
  • Languages: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish

Education

  • 1997-00, PhD Geography, University College, London
  • 1994-95, MSc Conservation, University College, London
  • 1990-94, BSc, Geography and Regional Planning, New University of Lisbon

Career

Current position

  • Co-leader of the iBiochange Group and Senior Researcher of the CSIC at National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain.
  • Visiting Full Professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Denmark.
  • Visiting Full Professor at the University of Évora and holder of the ’Rui Nabeiro’ Chair in Biodiversity, Portugal.
  • Senior researcher of the “International Laboratory on Global Change” (LINC-Global), which is part of the CSIC and the “Pontificia Católica Universidad de Chile” (PUC).

Previous positions

  • 2006-2009, Senior Research Associate of the Oxford University Centre for Environment
  • 2006, Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2005-07, Ramon y Cajal Research fellow of the CSIC at National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain 
  • 2004-05, Marie-Curie Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK; and Biogeography and Conservation Laboratory, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
  • 2004-05, Environmental Change Institute and Linacre College Teaching Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
  • 2001-03, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, France
  • 2001-05, Research Associate, Macroecology and Conservation Unit, University of Évora, Portugal
  • 1997-00, Biogeography and Conservation Laboratory, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • 1996-97, Research Assistant, Centre of Applied Ecology, University of Évora, Portugal

Short stays in other labs

  • February-April 2011, University of Adelaide, Australia (with Barry Brook)
  • August 2010, Central Federal University, Brazil (with José Alexandre Diniz-Filho)
  • September 2005, Central Federal University, Brazil (with José Alexandre Diniz-Filho)
  • May 2004, Finnish Environmental Institute, Helsinki, Finland (with Risto Heikkinen)
  • April 2003, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain (with Jorge Lobo)
  • October 2002, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, USA (with Sandy Andelman)
  • September 2001, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland (with Illka Hanski, Mar Cabeza and Atte Moilanen)
  • September-November 1995, Biogeography and Conservation Laboratory, The Natural History Museum, London, UK (with Dick Vane-Wright)

Prizes, honors, and awards:

  • 2009-2013 – Appointed by an international panel “Rui Nabeiro” Biodiversity Chair (“cátedra”), with an endowment of €500,000 for the promotion of higher education and research in biodiversity and global change
  • 2007 – Contributor to the 4th IPCC Assessment Report, for which the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize
  • 2005-2007 – Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellowship
  • 2004-2005 – Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship
  • 2001-2003 – FCT Sapiens Post doc fellowship
  • 2000 – Society for Conservation Biology Travel Award – Annual Meeting in Conservation Biology, University of Montana
  • 1997 – Department of Geography at the University College London Travel Award – VIII MEDECOS, San Diego, California
  • 1997-2000 – FCT Sapiens PhD studentship
  • 1996 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation & British Council Fellowship
  • 1994-1995 – FCT PRAXIS XXI MSc Studentship
  • 1993-1994 – EC ERASMUS BSc Studentship

Experience as editor and referee

  • 2009 and owards – Editorial advisory board of Frontiers of Biogeography
  • 2008-2011 – Associate editor of Conservation Letters
  • 2008-2010 – Associate editor of Geography Compass
  • 2007 and onwards – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Ecography
  • 2005-2007 – Subject editor of Ecography
  • 2005 and onwards – Associate editor of the Journal of Biogeography
  • 2005-2006 – Handling editor of a special issue on species distribution modelling in the Journal of Biogeography
  • 1999 and onwards – I have refereed papers in the journals: Applied Vegetation Science; Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Climatic Change, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environment & History, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Science and Policy, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Biodiversity Informatics, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Nature, Oikos, Professional Geographer, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

Experience as a scientific evaluator

  • 2008 – Evaluator of the Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme in the field of Global Change
  • 2007 – Evaluator of applicants for Assistant Professorships at the University of Upsalla
  • 2007 – Evaluator of Applicants for Tenured Research Positions for the South African National Council
  • 2007 – Evaluator of applicants for Senior Research positions at the “Instituto Superior de Agronomia”, Lisboa
  • 2007 – Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Biodiversity Conservation projects of the BBVA Foundation
  • 2006-2009 – Evaluator of several research proposals to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Experience of Management

  • 2011-2012 - Co-chair of the new permanent exhibition on “Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation” at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid. 
  • 2007-, Member of the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS BioDISCOVERY programme
  • 2007-2009, Vice President of the International Biogeography Society
  • 2001-2009, Manager of “AMBIO – Lista Portuguesa de Ambiente”
  • 2002-, Founder Member of the “Sociedade Portuguesa de Ética Ambiental”
  • 1997-1999 – Member of the board of “SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudos das Aves”.
  • 1991-1994, Member of the board of the “INamb – Instituto Nacional do Ambiente” in representation of the Environmental NGOs.
  • 1990-1997, Founder member and member of the board of the “Centro de Iniciação do Ambiente de Évora”.
  • 1989-1990, Coordinator of the “Comissão Instaladora da Oranização superior das Associações de Defesa do Ambiente”.
  • 1985-1994, Founder member and member of the board of the “ LPN Évora – Delegação Regional da Liga para a Protecção da Natureza”.

Projects

As principal investigator

    2006-2009 IBERIA GAP

    Evaluating gaps in protected areas and needs for biodiversity conservation in the Iberian Peninsula
    Funded by: MEC (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia)
    Position: PI
    Other participants: CSIC (Jorge M. Lobo, Joaquin Hortal, Diogo Alagador, Maria Triviño); Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Juan Carlos Moreno, Enrique García-Barros); Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Víctor Monserrat); Universidad de Alicante (José Ramón Verdú; Universidad de Castilla la Mancha (José Luís Yela)
    Total budget (€): 169.000
    Budget of PI (€): 169.000

    2006-09 BIOIMPACTO

    Predicciones de los Impactos del Cambio Climático sobre la Biodiversidad en América Latina
    Funded by: FBBVA
    Position: PI
    Other participants: CSIC (David Nogués-Bravo, Mariana Munguía); Universidade Federal de Goiás (Alexandre Diniz-Filh, Luís Mauricio Bini, Paulo de Marco jr, Thiago Rangel); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Enrique Martinez-Meyer, Victor Sánchez-Cordero), Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (Miguel Nakamura)
    Total budget (€): 153.600
    Budget of IP (€): 153.600

    2006-09 MACIS

    Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate Change: Impacts on Biodiversity
    Funded by: EC FP6 (SSP project)
    Position: Co-PI
    Other participants: Several – read more
    Total budget (€): 900.000
    Budget of IP (€): 81.219

    2007-12 ECOCHANGE

    Challenges in Assessing and Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in Europe
    Funded by: EC FP6 (Integrated project)
    Position: Co-PI
    Other participants: Several – read more
    Total budget (€): 7.000.000
    Budget of IP (€): 283.368

    2004-09 ALARM

    Assessing Large-scale Environmental Risks with Tested Methods
    Funded by: EC FP6 (Integrated project)
    Position: Co-PI
    Other participants: Several – read more
    Total budget (€): 12.000.000
    Budget of IP (€): 189.600

    2002-04 European Thematic Network for Protected Areas/Nature Preservation and Geographical Information

    Funded by: EC FP5 (IST project)
    Position: Co-PI
    Other participants: Several – read more
    Total budget (€): 1.129.830
    Budget of IP (€): 72.600

    2002-04 Espacialização da incerteza: indicadores de biodiversidade no contexto do ordenamento do território

    Funded by: FCT
    Position: Co-PI
    Other participants: Instituto Superior Técnico Português; Instituto Geográfico Português)
    Total budget (€): 70.000
    Budget of IP (€): 26.000

As collaborator

    2009-2011 Planning for a transformed future: Modelling synergistic climate change and land use impacts on biodiversity

    Funded by: Australian Research Council (Linkage Project)
    Position: Colaborator of project led by Prof. Barry Brook (University of Adelaide)
    Total budget (AUS$): 521,000

    2001-03 Selecting Important Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Portugal

    Funded by: FCT & ICN
    Position: Collaborator of Prof. Diogo Figueiredo (University of Évora)
    Total budget (€): 60.000

    2002-2004 ‘Faunística Predictiva: Análisis Comparado de la Efectividad de Distintas
    Metodologías y su Aplicación para la Selección de Reservas Naturales’.

    Funded: FBBVA
    Position: Collaborator of Project led by Dr. Jorge Lobo

    2001-2005 ATEAM (Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling)

    Funded by: EC FP5 (Integrated project)
    Position: Collaborator
    Other participants: Several – http://www.pik-potsdam.de/ateam/
    Total budget (€): 9.000.000

    2001-2003 Identification and Restoration of Ecological Corridors in Alentejo

    Funded by: Operational Programme for the Environment in the Alentejo
    Position: Collaborator of project led by Prof. Diogo Figueiredo
    Total Budget (€):100.000.

    1997-2000 Biodiversity Indicators of Sustainable Management of Portuguese Montados

    Funding from: Ministério da Agricultura e Florestas
    Position: Collaborator of project le by Prof. Diogo Figueiredo
    Total budget (€): 240.000

    1995-1997 Biogeographical database of the fauna and flora of Alentejo

    Funded by: Direcção Regional do Ambiente do Alentejo
    Position: Collaborator of project led by Prof. Diogo Figueiredo
    Total budget (€): 65.000

Tenders

  • 2009 Consultancy for the Council of Europe with the aim of producing a report on the effects of climate change on European Protected Areas (€6.000)
  • 2008-2009 Consultancy for the Portuguese Government and EDP (“Electricidade de Portugal”) with the aim of producing a study of the climate change impacts on the Portuguese terrestrial biodiversity (€150,000)
  • 2008-2009 Consultancy for the Spanish Government with the aim of producing a study of the climate change impacts on the Spanish terrestrial biodiversity(€150,000)
  • 1996 Consultancy for ERENA LDA on EC project: ‘Biodiversité et économie agraire: recherche méthodologique pour la quantification et la remunération d’un produit intentionnel en matière de conservation de la biodiversité’ (€30,000).

Teaching experience

Post-Doc supervision

  • Camilla Flojgaard (2011-2013). Danish Council for Independent Research Postdoctoral research felow working on mechanistic models of species distributions.
  • François Guilhaumon (2010-2013). ‘Rui Nabeiro Chair’ Postdoctoral research fellow working on uncertainty in species range prediction.
  • Regan Early (2010-2013). FCT Postdoctoral research fellow working on conservation of species under climate change.
  • Luís Reino (2010-2013). FCT Postdoctoral research fellow working on predicting ecological mechanisms in ecotones. Shared with Pedro Beja. 
  • Lauri Laanisto (2009-2012). JAE Postoctoral research fellow working on the evolution of climatic niches. Shared with Pablo Marquet.
  • Carlos Dommar D’Lima (2009-2010). BIOCHANGE Post doctoral research fellow working in theoretical models of species niches.
  • Emilio Civantos (2009-2010). ECOCHANGE Post doctoral research fellow working on biodiversity evaluation under the ecosystem service framework.
  • Andrés Baselga (2008). MACIS Post doctoral research fellow working on species assemblage modelling under climate change. Now at the University of Santiago de Compostela
  • David Nogués-Bravo (2005-2009). ALARM and then CSIC I3P Post doctoral research fellow working on climate-change impacts on biodiversity. Now at the University of Copenhagen
  • Joaquin Hortal (2005-2008). FCT Research Fellow working on environmental- and assemblage-based surrogates for biodiversity. Now at the Imperial College of London
  • Richard G. Pearson (2004-2005). ALARM Post doctoral research fellow working on climate-change impacts on biodiversity. Now at the American Museum of Natural History

PhD supervision

  • Raquel Garcia (2010-13). FCT PhD student in Biology. Project Conservation planning in a changing climate in sub-saharan Africa. Joint supervision with Andrew Night and Mar Cabeza.
  • Paco Ferri (2010-13). JAE PhD student in Biology. Project: Thermal ecophysiology of Liolaemus lizards in South America. Joint supervision with Pablo Marquet and Jack Hayes.
  • Raúl García Valdés (2007-11). FPI PhD student in Biology. Project: Mechanistic modelling of tree species under climate change scenarios. Joint supervision with Miguel A. Zavala.
  • Maria Triviño (2007-11). FPI PhD student in Biology. Project: Predicting species persistence under climate change scenarios.
  • Diogo Alagador (2006-09). FCT PhD student in Applied Mathematics, ‘Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa’. Project: Selecting areas for biodiversity conservation under global environmental change. Joint supervision with Dr. Jorge Orestes Cerdeira.
  • Mariana Munguía (2007-10). UNAM + BIOIMPACTO PhD student in Biology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Project: The Plioscene-Pleistoscene period in the American Biotic Interchange. Joint supervision with Dr. Enrique Martinez-Meyer.
  • Christian Hof (2007-09). ISOBIS PhD student in Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Projec: Impacts of climate change on global amphibian distributions. Joint supervision with Prof. Carsten Rahbek.
  • Irina Levinsky (2007-09). ISOBIS PhD in Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Project: Impacts of climate change on African vertebrate species. Joint supervision with Prof. Carsten Rahbek.
  • Ana Filipa Filipe (2004-08). FCT PhD student in Biology at ‘Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa’. Project: Patterns and processes of freshwater fish distribution and diversity in the Iberian Peninsula. Joint supervision with Prof. Maria Collares-Pereira and Dr. Paul Angermeier.
  • Francisco Diniz (2004-08). FCT PhD student in Biology at the University of Azores. Project: predicting richness of arthropod species in the Azores. Joint supervision with Dr. Paulo Borges and Dr. Henrique Miguel Pereira.
  • Pedro Segurado (2003-06). FCT PhD student in Biology at University of Leeds. Project: Occurrence and persistence of freshwater turtles in Portugal: problems of scale and implications for conservation. Joint supervision with Prof. W. Kunin. Now at the “Instituto Superior de Agronomia”, Lisboa
  • Ana Luísa Gomes (2002-06). FCT PhD student in Geography at the ‘Universidade de Évora’. Project: Identifying wilderness areas in Portugal. Joint supervision with Dr. Nuno Neves. Now at the “Instituto Geográfico Português”, Lisboa
  • Wilfried Thuiller (2001-03). ATEAM PhD student in Biology at University of Montpellier II. Project: Assessing vulnerability of biodiversity to global change in Europe. Advisor on behalf of the main supervisor Dr. Sandra Lavorel. Now at the CNRS-Grenoble

MSc teaching

I taught the 16 hours course for the MSc Macroecology at the University of Copenhagen, a 14 hours environmental-modelling option for the MSc Environmental Change at the University of Oxford (2004-2005), two sets of 3 hour lectures on conservation planning for the Oxford-based MSc Biodiversity Conservation and Management (2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006), a 15 hours option in Systematic Conservation Planning for the MSc in Biodiversity Management at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (2003-2004) and several short (2-3 hours) courses, on the same subject, at University College London (for the MSc Conservation, 1999-2000), and University of Évora (for the MSc Natural Resource Management, 1996-1997 and 1997-1998).

Invited seminars

I am frequently invited to give talks and seminars. Examples include: International Biogeography Society Meeting, Tenerife, Spain (January 2007); International ISOBIS Summer School, Aarhus, Denmark (August, 2006); III Okazaki Biology Conference: The Biology of Extinction 2, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan (March 2006); Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen (February 2006), Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Germany (Octover 2005); ‘Universidad Internacional de Andalucía’, Baeza (Octubre 2005); ‘Universidade Federal de Goiás’, Brazil (September 2005); Aspen Global Change Institute (Julio 2005); Nature GIS Conference in Torino (March 2005); UNEP-WCMC in Cambridge (October 2004); University of Malaga (July 2004), University of Azores in Angra do Heroismo (July 2004); Finnish Environment Institute in Helsinki (May 2004); Ecole Normale d’Etude Superieur de Paris (January 2004); School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (January 2004); Middle East Technical University in Ankara (January 2004); National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid (April 2003); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’, Montpellier (June 2003); National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University California, Santa Barbara (September 2002); Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon (March 2002); Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki (September 2001); Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, (September 2001); Finnish Environmental Institute (September 2001); ‘Universidade do Porto’ (September 2000); The Natural History Museum, London (July 1999 and June 2000); EXPO 98 in Lisbon (August 1998); Atlas Florae Europeaea Committee in Helsinki (September 1997).

Organisation of seminars, workshop and courses

I have organised, or participated in the organisation, of series of seminars, workshop meetings and summer courses. Examples include the 1) Workshop ‘A New Research Agenda for Palaeoecology and Macroecology’ (Noudar, Portugal, 26th-30th March 2007); 2) Workshop Architecture of a new software for combining ensembles of species distribution models’ (Madrid, Spain, 25th March 2007); 3) VII Meeting of GIS users (Lisbon, 2004); 4) Workshop Stream Session VII – Conservation Planning and Climate Change (IUCN V World Parks Congress, Durban, 2003); 5) Conservation International’s workshop meeting on species modelling (Montpellier, 2002); 6) Conservation International’s workshop meeting on reserve selection and climate change (Évora, 2002); 7) 1st Symposium on Migratory Birds in the Iberian Peninsula (University of Évora, 1998); 8) Workshop on Restoration Ecology in Mediterranean Ecosystems in collaboration with the University College in London and the University of Reading (Mertola, 1997); 9) three international summers courses i) Managing Nature in Protected Areas, in collaboration with University College London, ii) Origin, Evolution and Conservation of Mediterranean Flora, in collaboration with University of Aberdeen; and iii) Natural Science Illustration, in collaboration with the University of Évora.