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.

[2] He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

[3] An author and co-author of over 350 scientific publications and about 20 books,[4] during his career he received numerous accolades and honours, notably a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and the 2020 National Prize for Natural Sciences.

[5] A new species of genus endemic to Chile discovered in 2016, the dromiciops bozinovici, was named after him by the Journal of Mammalogy.

[4] Bozinovic died after a long battle against cancer on 1 January 2023, at the age of 63.