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John R. Hutchinson
Reader in Evolutionary Biomechanics
Structure and Motion Laboratory
The Royal Veterinary College
University of London
North Mymms, Hatfield, Herts
AL9 7TA, United Kingdom
phone: 44 1707 666313
fax: 44 1707 666371
e-mail: jrhutch at (the @ symbol) rvc.ac.uk
Homepage (at RVC)
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Mariano Garcia
Senior Engineering Specialist
BorgWarner Morse TEC
770 Warren Road
Ithaca NY 14850
Work phone: (607) 266-2136
E-mail: garcia@tam.cornell.edu
Homepage (at Cornell)
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John writes:
I was trained as a biologist (B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1993) and specialized in the evolution of dinosaur anatomy and locomotion (Ph.D., University of California, 2001), and in 2002 when this work was published was an NSF postdoctoral research fellow in the Biomechanical Engineering Division at Stanford University. The biomechanics skills I learned there were to make me a better evolutionary biomechanist. One of my goals is drawing the fields of biomechanics and evolution closer together. My research focuses on the evolution of locomotion in terrestrial vertebrates and the relationship between size, anatomy, and locomotor biomechanics. Currently I study dinosaurs (and their bird descendants), elephants, and crocodiles.
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Mariano writes:
My undergraduate background is in mechanical engineering (B.S., Cornell University, 1993) and I went on to study dynamics with Andy Ruina in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell (Ph. D. 1999). My Ph.D. work focused on simulating very simple passive dynamic models of human walking, and I grew to enjoy the application of mechanics and dynamics to biological research. I further developed this interest in Bob Full's Polypedal lab at UC Berkeley, where I was a post-doc for 1.5 years in the department of Integrative Biology. In Bob's lab I studied cockroach biomechanics and helped develop several cockroach simulations of varying complexity. I also collaborated with a few researchers on projects like the one described in this paper. Currently I am doing multibody simulation work in private industry, although I try to keep in touch with my former labs at Berkeley and Cornell. I currently live with my wife Ellen and daughter Mikaela in Ithaca NY. We are expecting another baby in late March 2002.
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