1. Ilkka Aulis Hanski was a Finnish ecologist at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
14 Facts About Ilkka Hanski
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Ilkka Hanski took his bachelor's degree and Licentiate's degree in the University of Helsinki in 1976 and Doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in 1979.
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Ilkka Hanski was a graduate student in Oxford from 1976 to 1979.
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Ilkka Hanski was appointed as a docent in the University of Helsinki in 1981 and in the University of Joensuu in 1983.
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Ilkka Hanski worked in the Academy of Finland from 1978 to 1988 as well as from 1991 to 1992.
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Ilkka Hanski worked as an acting professor of zoology in the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1991, and was appointed professorship of zoology in 1993.
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Ilkka Hanski served as an Academy Professor for the Academy of Finland from 1996 until his death.
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The central questions of metapopulation biology studies by Ilkka Hanski have several practical applications.
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The scientific literature produced by Ilkka Hanski is rather enormous; the ISI Web of Knowledge database suggests that he is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific articles and has edited several books.
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Ilkka Hanski died of a long-illness on 10 May 2016 in Helsinki, aged 63.
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Ilkka Hanski was an active advocate of nature and biodiversity conservation, participating in public debates.
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Ilkka Hanski was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2005, the second Finnish scientist ever to receive this award.
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Ilkka Hanski was awarded the Crafoord Prize in biosciences 2011 "for his pioneering studies on how spatial variation affects the dynamics of animal and plant populations".
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In 2016, Ilkka Hanski was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for opening up an area of ecology that explains how species survive in fragmented habitats and allows to quantify extinction thresholds.