Julia Molnar
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Julia is a scientific illustrator and PhD/MRes student in the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by John Hutchinson, Jennifer Clack, Renate Weller, and Stephanie Pierce. Her research focuses on reconstructing locomotion in early tetrapods.
Biography
Julia received her MA in biological and medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University in 2009. Her masters thesis, Visualising Quadrupedal Launch in Pterosaurs, gave her experience modeling locomotion in extinct animals and also brought her into contact with researchers at the Royal Veterinary College. She joined the Structure and Motion Lab in 2009 as our research group's Scientific Illustrator. In 2010 she began a part-time PhD project, "Evolutionary transitions of the biomechanical functions of limbs and vertebrae from water to land and land to water: examples from early Tetrapoda and Crocodylomorpha."
Julia received the 2009 Lazendorf Prize for scientific illustration in and the 2011 Jackson School of Geosciences Student Travel Grant in from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Selected Publications
Molnar, Julia L., Stephanie E. Pierce, Jennifer A. Clack, John R. Hutchinson. (accepted). Idealized landmark-based geometric reconstructions of poorly preserved fossil material: a case study of an early tetrapod vertebra. Palaeontologia Electronica.
Hutchinson JR, Bates KT, Molnar J, Allen V, Makovicky PJ. 2011. A computational analysis of limb and body dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with implications for locomotion, ontogeny and growth. PLoS One 6(10): e26037