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Team Members
Postdocs and Fellows
- Dr. Jeff Rankin (RVC Fellowship in Computer Modelling and Simulation and postdoc on chicken grant; since 2010)
- Dr. Heather Paxton (BBSRC broiler chicken biomechanics grant postdoc; did MSc and PhD with JRH; since 2008)
- Dr. Peter Falkingham (Marie Curie EU International Outgoing Research Fellow; project details here; since 2012)
PhD students
- Sharon Warner (mammalian foot biomechanics and pathology; technician then PhD student; since 2007)
- Julia Molnar (biomechanics of aquatic-terrestrial transitions in tetrapod evolution; also our Scientific Visualization Expert/technician; since 2009)
- Luis Lamas (emu locomotion biomechanics and ontogenetic scaling; since 2010)
- Anna Liedtke (co-supervisor with Andrew Spence; control and stability of many-legged animals; since 2010)
External PhD students (as co-supervisor/collaborator)
- Ashley Heers (U Montana-Missoula w/Ken Dial et al; bird flight origin and evolution; since 2009)
Technicians
- Julia Molnar (RVC Scientific Visualization Expert; also doing PhD with JRH; since 2009)
Former students and staff
- Dr. Stephanie Pierce (NERC tetrapod locomotion postdoc; 2009-2012; now RVC Temporary Lecturer in Evolutionary Biomechanics with JRH)
- Dr. Olga Panagiotopoulou (BBSRC mammalian foot biomechanics grant and Marie Curie EU reintegration grant Fellow, 2009-2012; now at University of Queensland, Australia)
- Michael Pittman (at UCL w/Paul Upchurch; dinosaur tail mechanics/evolution, finished PhD in 2012)
- Aleksandra "Ola" Birn-Jeffery (co-supervisor with Monica Daley; bird stability and scaling, finished PhD in 2012)
- Philip Pickering (Biomechanics Research Technician, 2009-2012)
- Dr. Alexis Wiktorowicz Conroy (was postdoc on BBSRC bone/gait scaling grant; 2008-2011)
- Dr. Shin-ichi Fujiwara (was Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow at RVC; 2009-2011)
- Dr. Dimitrios Tsaopoulos (was BBSRC elephant postdoc; 2008-2009)
- Dr. Lei Ren (was BBSRC elephant postdoc; 2005-2007)
- Dr. Vivian Allen (dinosaur evolutionary biomechanics; finished PhD in 2011)
- Dr. Charlotte Miller (elephant foot/limb mechanics; finished PhD in 2008)
- Dr. Thibaud Souter (Paris w/Anick Abourachid et al.; bird/dinosaur pelvic morphometrics and function; finished PhD in 2011)
- Dr. Victoria Herridge (NHM w/Adrian Lister; dwarf elephant scaling; finished PhD in 2009)
- Dr. Pattama Ritruechai (w/Renate Weller and James Wakeling; horse back mechanics; finished PhD in 2008)