Wilfried Thuiller#
| Membership Number: | 3826 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.will.chez-alice.fr/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2011 Senior Research Scientist (Directeur de Recherche 2ème class). CNRS at Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (Grenoble, France)
- 2009 - 2011 Research Scientist (CR 1st class). CNRS at Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (Grenoble, France)
- 2005 - 2009 Junior Research Scientist (CR 2st class). CNRS at Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (Grenoble, France)
- 2004 - 2005 Research Scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (Cape Town, South Africa)
- 2001 - 2003 Ph. D. thesis at Univ. Montpellier II (France)
Fields of Scholarship
- Global change biology
- Biodiversity modelling
- Macroecology
- Statistical ecology
- Macroevolution
- (Meta-) Community ecology
- Functional ecology
- Community phylogenetic
- Big Data analyses
- Multi-trophic interactions from DNA barcoding
Honours and Awards
- ERC award (2012-2016). Towards Eco-Evolutionary Modeling of Biodiversity. ERC St Grant (1,500K€)
- Nobel Peace Prize 2007, co-shared with all IPCC leading and contributing authors and Al Gore Jr.
- Top 12 “Highly Cited Authors in Climate Change Research 1999-2009” by Science Watch
- Most cited Scientist of the world in Ecology and Environmental Science over the last 10 years (ISI Web Of Science, Essential Indicators) since more than 2 years - onwards
