Marinos Stavrou
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Marinos is a PhD student within the Structure and Motion Lab, supervised by Jim Usherwood. His research focuses on the aerodynamics of birds.
Biography
Marinos graduated with a BSc in Environmental Biology at the University of Nottingham in 2008. His final year dissertation focused on vulture conservation ecology which included research into the way these large birds fly. This led to an interest in discovering more about bird flight in general; especially gliding and powered flight.
Research
Marinos's PhD project is supervised by Dr. Jim Usherwood. It focuses on the aerodynamics of the bird and how the structure of the bird body (especially flight muscles and bones) assists in flight. He hopes to include these aspects of biomechanics in an environmental context which could help explain bird behaviour and ecology in more detail.
Selected Publications
Usherwood, J.R., Stavrou, M., Lowe, J.C., Roskilly, K. and Wilson, A.M. (2011). Flying in a flock comes at a cost in pigeons. Nature 474, 494-497. doi:10.1038/nature10164. Not open access: see Link