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John Hutchinson

Name: Dr John Hutchinson
PhD
Post: Professor of Evolutionary Biomechanics
Department: Veterinary Basic Sciences
Email: jrhutch [@ sign] rvc dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1707 66 6313
Address: Academics
The Royal Veterinary College
Hawkshead Lane
North Mymms
Hatfield
Herts AL9 7TA
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John Hutchinson

John is a Professor of Evolutionary Biomechanics. Professor Hutchinson's research straddles the fields of evolutionary biology and biomechanics, with an emphasis on how very large animals stand and move and how locomotion evolved in different groups of land vertebrates.


Biography

Professor Hutchinson is an American biologist who found his new home in the UK. He gained a BS degree in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin in 1993, then received a PhD in Integrative Biology at the University of California with Kevin Padian in 2001, and rounded out his training with a two-year National Science Foundation bioinformatics Post Doc at the Biomechanical Engineering Division of Stanford University with Scott Delp.

John started at the Royal Veterinary College as a Lecturer in Evolutionary Biomechanics in 2003 in the Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, in 2008 became a Reader, and in 2011 became a full Professor. John is now an Associate Editor for the Journal of Theoretical Biology (manuscripts must be submitted through their website).

Research

John has worked on extant and extinct animals ranging from birds and crocodiles to elephants and many other mammals as well as extinct dinosaurs and early tetrapods. John uses a combination of theoretical and experimental techniques, from motion analysis and force platforms to simple 2D static mechanics or complex 3D fully dynamic computer simulations.

For more information see Professor Hutchinson's Structure and Motion Lab page, especially his Research Interests page.

Five websites related to research I've done with collaborators on dinosaurs and elephants, plus information on two grant projects:

1. Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner
2. Dinosaur locomotion: Beyond the bones
3. Are fast-moving elephants really running?
4. Elephant locomotor biomechanics
5. Do elephants have six toes?
6. Biomechanics and pathology of mammalian feet (BBSRC grant w/Renate Weller and colleagues)
7. Towards the chicken of the future- Biomechanics of broiler chicken locomotion (BBSRC grant w/Jonathan Codd, Monica Daley and colleagues)

Also see my pages on Academia.edu, Google Scholar and Twitter

MUSEUM EXHIBITS

I was a consultant on Theropod Biomechanics at the American Museum of Natural History's "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries" exhibit, still touring other museums.

I am the Chief Paleontology Advisor for the wonderfully interactive "Be the Dinosaur" exhibit, currently touring museums in the USA: Be the Dinosaur

Selected Publications

For a frequently updated publications list see this page.

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