| Francisco Bozinovic | |
| Birth Place: | Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, Chile |
| Death Place: | Santiago, Chile |
| Occupation: | Scientist |
Francisco Bozinovic Kuscevic (6 June 1959 – 1 January 2023) was a Chilean-Croatian[1] biologist and academic, mainly active in the field of evolutionary biology.
Born in Punta Arenas, Bozinovic graduated in Biology at the University of Chile in 1983 and got a PhD in Science in the same university in 1988.[2] He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.[3] A member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, he served as full professor at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. An author and co-author of over 350 scientific publications and about 20 books, during his career he received numerous accolades and honours, notably a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and the 2020 National Prize for Natural Sciences.[4] A new species of genus endemic to Chile discovered in 2016, the dromiciops bozinovici, was named after him by the Journal of Mammalogy.
Bozinovic died after a long battle against cancer on 1 January 2023, at the age of 63.[5]