Anna Traveset#
| Membership Number: | 7493 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://imedea.uib-csic.es/travesetlab/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1816-1334 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wn9FJ64AAAAJ&hl=en) |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2006 Full Professor at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)
- 2001 - 2006 Scientific Researcher at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)
- 1995 - 2001 Tenure Scientist at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)
- 1991 - 1995 Post-doctoral position at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)
- 1989 - 1991 Post-doctoral position at Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
- 1985 - 1989 PhD student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- 1979 - 1984 Undergraduate, University of Barcelona, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Island biology
- Mutualistic disruptions
- Effect of global change of island ecosystems
- Ecological networks
- Ecology and evolution of ecological interactions
- Biological invasions
Honours and Awards
- 2025 National Prize in the area of Natural Resources Science and Technology (Alejandro Malaspina), awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science
- 2024 Leandre Cervera Professional Career Award by the Catalan Society of Biology
- 2023 Ecosistemas-Luis Balaguer Award by the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET)
- 2023 Margarita Salas Medal Award by the CSIC for the best trajectory in student supervision
- 2023 - 2027 Principal Investigator of the IMEDEA Project “Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu” financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation
- 2023 Honorary Member of the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology
- 2022 Ramon Llull Award by the Government of the Balearic Islands
- 2022 European Research Council Advanced Grant 2022 - 2027
- 2022 Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University, CA (USA) (June-August 2022)
- 2019 - 2024 Institutional Representative of CSIC in the Balearic Islands
- 2019 - present Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Gadea Foundation
- 2018 - present Collaborating Researcher at the University of the Balearic Islands
- 2002 - present Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for the People & the Planet University of Coimbra, Portugal
- 2018 Member of the High Advisory Council on R&D&I of the Generalitat Valenciana
- 2017 Rey Jaime I Prize for Environmental Protection, awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana
- 1996 Bartomeu Darder Prize awarded by the Societat d'Història Natural de las Baleares (SHNB) for the best published study in the natural sciences in the Balearics
