Former Postdoctoral Researchers

 

DR. JULIEN CLAVEL - Phylogenetic comparative methods and evolutionary modelling

Currently a CNRS researcher at Université Lyon

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DR. RYAN N. FELICE - Morphological evolution and development in archosaurs

           Currently an assistant professor (lecturer) at University College London

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DR. MARCELA RANDAU - Insect modularity and integration

Currently a research coordinator for Brooke Animal Welfare Charity

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DR. CARLA BARDUA - Amphibian cranial evolution

Currently a PGCE fellow at Oxford University

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DR. AIDA GOMEZ-ROBLES - Modularity and evolution of brains and teeth in hominids

           Currently an assistant professor (lecturer) at University College London

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DR. AKINOBU WATANABE - Evolutionary modularity and morphological evolution of squamates

           Currently an assistant professor at New York Institute of Technology

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DR. THOMAS J. D. HALLIDAY - Paleocene mammal phylogenetics and evolution

           Currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham

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DR. ANDREW R. CUFF - Felid postcranial mechanics

          Currently an assistant lecturer at the University of York

 

DR. VERA WEISBECKER - Mammalian brain evolution and development

Currently a senior lecturer at Flinders University

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DR. DANIELA SANFELICE - Pinniped skull integration and evolution

Currently a staff scientist at Fundacao Zoobotanica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

 

DR. JEROEN SMAERS - Morphological rates in primate skull evolution

Co-supervised with Dr. Christophe Soligo in UCL-Anthropology

Currently an assistant professor at SUNY Stony Brook

 

DR. ROGER B. J. BENSON - Latitudinal diversity gradients in Cretaceous vertebrates

          Co-supervised with Prof. Paul Upchurch in UCL-Earth Sciences

          Currently a lecturer at University of Oxford, UK

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DR. MARK BELL - Latitudinal diversity gradients in Cretaceous vertebrates

          Co-supervised with Prof. Paul Upchurch in UCL-Earth Sciences

 

Former Ph.D. Students

DR. CARLA BARDUA - Amphibian cranial evolution and modularity

Currently a PGCE fellow at Oxford University

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DR. MARCELA RANDAU - Felid vertebral integration and evolution

          Currently a research coordinator for Brooke Animal Welfare Charity

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DR. THOMAS HALLIDAY - Placental mammal phylogenetics and macroevolution

          Currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham

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DR. ANNE-CLAIRE FABRE - Carnivoran postcranial morphological evolution  

               Co-supervised with Dr. Stéphane Peigné in Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

 Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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DR. C. VERITY BENNETT - Marsupial taxonomic and morphological diversity 

Currently a research associate at Cardiff University School of Medicine

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DR. SAM BENNETT - Ichthyosaur ontogeny and dimorphism

          Co-supervised with Dr.Margaret Collinson in Royal Holloway College-Earth Sciences

          and Dr. Paul Barrett in NHM-Earth Sciences

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DR. GEMMA PRICE - Cranial shape evolution in strepsirrhine primates

          Co-supervised with Dr. Christophe Soligo in UCL-Anthropology

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Former Master's and undergraduate thesis students

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MIRANDA STEVENS - Dinosaur claw evolution

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CARYS DOWLING - Developmental constraints in mammalian jaw evolution

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MATT MITCHELL - Modularity in parrot skull

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SARAH COCKERILL - Modularity in the mangoose cranium

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LUCY ROBERTS - Shape evolution in burrowing snakes

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ANDY BRINKWORTH - Size evolution in rodents

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CECILIA DERRICK - Modularity in the grasshopper exoskeleton

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SHIN KANG - Brain size scaling in whales

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ASHLEIGH MARSHALL - Intraspecific modularity in caecilian skulls

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BEN TOWNE - Beak and skull evolution in razorbills

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VITTORIA ORI - Intraspecific modularity in turtle skulls

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MARGOT BON - Jaw evolution and modularity in frogs and salamanders

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NOAH SHEPHERD - Intraspecific modularity in reptiles

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MARINA SENTIS - Skull-brain integration in marsupials

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HANNAH TILLEY - Evolutionary rates and developmental constraints in the mammal skull

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ROWAN TINKER - Mammal carpal shape evolution

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ALEX MARSHALL - Squamate cranial integration

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TOM DAVIES - Placental mammal fossil record completeness

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SAMANTHA WAUGH - Squamate and amphibian limb integration

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DR. SARA RAJ PANT - Sloth body size evolution

        

DR. ELIS NEWHAM - Diversity patterns in Cretaceous mammals

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DR. EMILY BELL - Limb covariance structure in flying amniotes

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LAUREN FOLEY - Carnivoran cranial suture development

 

KARINE SAWAN - Body size, diversity, and survivorship in Perissodactyla

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DUNCAN MCCAUSLAND - Life history and ecological correlates of brain size in marsupials

 

ELIZABETH DAYSH - Regional brain scaling in marsupials

 

EDWARD MORGAN - Phylogenetic relationships of arctocyonid condylarths

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PHIL MACKENZIE - Dental cascades in Mesozoic mammals

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DR. ANNE-CLAIRE FABRE - Ankle evolution in early mammals

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DR. C. VERITY BENNETT - Limb integration in mammals

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DR. RACHEL FRIGOT - Cope's rule in pterosaurs

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JESS MARTIN - Carnivoran facial allometry

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DR. KATRINA JONES - Pinniped skull evolution

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