Ivan Jaric

Ivan Jaric is a Junior Professor at University of Paris-Saclay (since 2022) and Researcher at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (since 2017). He previously served as Lecturer at University of South Bohemia (2019-2022) and held research positions at Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology in Berlin and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His primary affiliation is with the Laboratoire Écologie, Société et Évolution – IDEEV at University Paris-Saclay.

His research spans multiple interconnected fields including species extinctions and extinction risk assessments, biological invasions, conservation culturomics, iEcology, fish ecology and fisheries management. He has made significant contributions to developing novel model-based risk assessment approaches and has particular expertise in sturgeon management and conservation. His work often bridges ecological theory with practical conservation applications.

His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on big-data approaches to ecology, with high-impact papers in Science (2022) and Nature (2021) examining animal movement ecology and economic costs of biological invasions. His research increasingly integrates digital data sources, social media analysis, and citizen science approaches to address conservation challenges.

• The Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for outstanding results in science (2022)
• Danubius Young Scientist Award (2015)
• Georg Forster Research Fellowship (2014-2017)
• J. E. Purkyne Fellowship (2018-2022)

Dr. Jaric actively supervises doctoral and master's students including Katarina Jovicic (completed PhD), Lobsang Tsering (current PhD), and Anna Cihlova (completed MSc). He serves on editorial boards for Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and Extinction journals, and has reviewed for numerous high-impact ecology journals including Nature Sustainability, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and Global Change Biology. He is actively involved with the Alliance for Freshwater Life and Conservation Culturomics Working Group of the Society for Conservation Biology.

His laboratory work primarily focuses on freshwater ecosystems, particularly examining fish population dynamics, extinction risk assessment, and the impacts of biological invasions. He leads collaborative research teams across multiple European institutions and has established strong connections with conservation organizations through his work on sturgeon conservation and the Danube Sturgeon Task Force.