Francisco Bozinovic

Francisco Bozinovic Kuscevic (6 June 1959 – 1 January 2023) was a Chilean-Croatian biologist and academic, mainly active in the field of evolutionary biology.

Life and career 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. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. 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. A new species of genus endemic to Chile discovered in 2016, the dromiciops bozinovici, was named after him by the Journal of Mammalogy.