Franz Essl#
| Membership Number: | 7507 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://bioinvasions.univie.ac.at/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8253-2112 |
| X: | @FranzEssl1 |
| Bluesky: | @FranzEssl1.bsky.social |
| Publication Link: | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Franz_Essl |
Present and Previous Positions
- 04/2023 - ongoing Head of Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology (University Vienna, Austria)
- 01/2020 - 04/2023 Leader of BioInvasions research group at the Division of Conservation, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology (University Vienna, Austria)
- 05/2013 - 12/2019 Ass.-Prof. at the Division of Conservation, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology (University Vienna, Austria)
- 09/2003 - 12/2019 Senior scientist at the Department for Nature Conservation and Biodiversity, Austrian Environment Agency
- 09/1999 - 6/2003 Junior scientist at the Umweltdachverband (National Coordination Bureau of Austrian Nature Conservation Organisations)
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological invasions
- Vegetation science
- biodiversity
- Macroecology
- Global change biology
- Conservation science
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Elected “Austrian scientist of the Year 2022
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- 1998- 2025 Recognized as a “Highly Cited Scientist” by Clarivate
- 2003 Prize for outstanding PhD-thesis, Ministry of Education and Science, Austria
