Lab members
Lab leader
Postdoc
Rodrigo Costa Araújo: Correlating morphology, behaviour, and genetics in the edible dormouse to assess the adaptations of cryptic species
PhD Students
Stefanie Luft: Macroscopic and microscopic investigation of the Lesser belted mole-rat (Chlamyphorus truncatus) and the Burmeister belted mole-rat (Calyptophractus retusus) using 3D modeling and histological sections
Elsa Seyr: Evaluating the applicability of enamel peptide analysis for sex assessment of human and animal remains (co-advised with Dr. Michaela Harbeck, Dr. Gertrud Rößner and Dr. Nadja Pöllath)
Larissa Dumbá: Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Tapiridae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) (co-advised with Dr. Mario Cozzuol)
Master Students
Hanna Hetesey: Life history adaptations of fossil dwarfed elephants using bone histology (Individual Research Training)
Jerry Leung: Geometric morphometric analysis of fossil Usidae sacri (Thesis Project, co-advised with Dr. Tzu-Ruei Yang)
Katharina Fröhlich: 2D geometric morphometric analysis of the teeth of ruminants with regard to functional morphological adaptation, phylogenetic signal and evolutionary development (Individual Research Training, co-advised with Prof. Nicola Heckeberg)
Allie Eastman: Comparative analysis of the dental morphology in two morphotypes of the edible dormouse (Glis glis) (Individual Research Training)
Shanaka Thisara: Assessment of the accuracy of various 3D modelling techniques and 3D geometric morphometric analyses on dormouse skulls to assess ecological adaptations (Thesis Project)
Hsuan (Acean) Hung: Comparative analysis of bone anatomy in 2D and 3D of the talpid shoulder girdle to assess digging adaptations (Thesis Project)
Aline Anashkina: The effects of captivity on the morphology of arctic foxes (Individual Research Training)
Laura Buchner: Olfactory adaptations in New World monkeys based on cribriform plate morphometrics (Individual Research Training)
Bachelor Students
Lilly Lauber: Assessing terrestrial and semi-aquatic adaptations in fossil Hippopotamidae using finite element analysis
Christoph Kliemant: Assessing insular evolution in dormice (Glis glis)
Jonathan Bachmann: Seasonal bone microstructure fluctuations in red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater) humeri using finite element analysis
Kevin Malik: Assessing seasonal fluctuations in cranial external morphology in the central European red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater) using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics
Katharina Epp: Assessing seasonal fluctuations in femoral external morphology in the central European red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater) using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics
Patrick Malik: Comparative analysis of dormice (Glis glis and Glis persicus) using finite element to assess dietary adaptations
Maxime Choukér: Comparative analysis of sexual dimorphism in Glis glis using finite element to assess dietary differentiation and niche partitioning
Aline Anashkina: The effects of captivity on the morphology of arctic foxes
Rebecca Lang: Improving low quality CT scans using machine learning
Trainees
Moritz Valentin Bach
Noah Ruben Mathes
Alumni
Postdoc
María Fernanda Martínez Polanco: Assessing the human impact on a pristine island environment by studying island dwarf deer at the Playa don Bernardo preceramic archaeological site (Pedro Gonzalez Island, Panama)
PhD Student
Mónica María Villalba de Alvarado: Looking for the earliest evidence of Ursus arctos in the Iberian Peninsula: the Middle Pleistocene site of Postes cave (co-advised with Dr. Asier Gomez-Olivencia)
Master Thesis Students
Chawalida Benjangkaprasert: Morphological changes of the baculum in American mink and red foxes in captivity and the wild (co-supervised with Dr. Phil Cox in the context of Erasmus Mundus)
Robert Massey: Investigation of fossil and recent Ferungulata dentition regarding the Inhibitory Cascade Model
Stefanie Luft: Analysis of intraspecific variation in the bone microstructure of Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater humeri using ORS Dragonfly
Sam Leeming: “Footedness” in orangutans: A Geometric Morphometric approach to understanding lateralisation in Great Apes.
Derk Overduin: Body mass estimation of the solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) based on skeletal measurements
Valeria Rojas: Morphological analysis of tooth root variation in Protelidae (Carnivora) in relation to dietary adaptations
Erasmus Mundus: Mobility European Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME) Students
Hope Anderson: Systemic Internal Bone Structure Analysis of Regourdou 1
María López Rodriguez: Geometrical morphometric analysis of bear’s sacra
Individual Research Training for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics Master Students
Bryce Ahn: Constructed phylogeny of subspecies of Panthera tigris using skull morphometric characters
Stefan Dehos: Geometric morphometric analysis of potential hybridisation between cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) and brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the late Pleistocene
Stefanie Luft: Morphological differences between bred and wild-caught Apodemus
Magdalene Matzke: Sexual dimorphism in bank voles (Myodes glareolus)
Sam Leeming: Understanding morphological variation of the elbow joint in the Ursidae: Insights from 3D Geometric Morphometrics
Miguel de Felipe Toro: The ecomorphology of hornbills: Correlating bill morphology and ecology of the family Bucerotidae
Anuj Trivedi: Using morphometrics of Carrion Crow Corvus corone corone specimens from museum collections to determine sex
Sajad Noori: Directional asymmetry in orangutan hands
Bachelor Thesis Students
Noah Ruben Mathes: Comparative analysis of the occlusal surface area and shape of the p4 tooth in Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766) and Glis sackdillingensis (Heller, 1930)
Jelena Vrdoljak: Bone microstructure analysis based on CT scans of orangutan hand phalanges
Benjamin Gottwald: Bone microstructure analysis on CT scans of orangutan foot phalanges
Sandra Fischer: Environmental adaptations and subspecific variation in the tiger (Panthera tigris) cranium with special focus on Taiwanese Pleistocene fossils from the Penghu Channel and Chochen: a geometric morphometric approach
Hannah Hetesy: Histological age estimation of elephant bone thin sections of Loxodonta africana and Loxodonta cyclotis
Johanna Almara Eschenbacher: Testing for differences between tigers (Panthera tigris) and lions (Panthera leo) based on the postcranial skeleton using traditional morphometrics
Hoa Pham: Exploring the evolution of Panthera tigris using phylogenetic analysis
Lisa-Marie Langheinrich: Testing for sex differences in juvenile ilia by visualizing shape trajectories and maturity rates using geometric morphometrics
Sarah Leib: The role of the Os ethmoidale in smell perception: olfaction in Atelidae
Laila Gröner: The cribriform plate as a bony reflection of the sense of smell: morphology and significance for olfaction in the Callitrichidae
Valeria Becker: The relationship between the cribriform plate size and olfaction in Pitheciidae
Luisa Pletschacher: Hand preference in Orangutan (Pongo) using geometric morphometrics
Elisabeth Fuchs: Examination of the proximal phalanx bones in orangutans and chimpanzees: comparison of the index and middle fingers
Rebecca Kufner: Orangutans and chimpanzees: asymmetries in the proximal phalanx of the ring finger and little finger of Pongo pygmaeus and Pan troglodytes
Mirta Toth: Intraspecific variation in the bone microstructure of Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater humeri with the focus on differences between sexes, adults and juveniles, and seasonal fluctuation
Evrim Yilmaz: Intraspecific variation in the bone microstructure of Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater with focus on laterality and differences between proximal and distal trabecular structures
Alba Colicchia: Investigation of the cribriform plate and the associated sense of smell in the Cebidae family
Yona Perstat: The study of the “Inhibitory Cascade Model” in terrestrial Carnivora with a focus on the family of Canidae
Stefanie Luft: The validity of the inhibitory cascade model in terrestrial Arctoidea
Scientific Interns
Beykan Nalcakar: Morphological study of the unerupted dentiton of a Miocene rhinoceros mandible based on CT-scans
Regina Rappolder: Literature review on the environmental adaptations in the tiger (Panthera tigris) skull
Mart Smeets: Cranial kinesis in Accipitridae for implementation in a finite element model of Haast’s Eagle (Harpagornis moorei)
Trainees
Neele Mielenhausen
Beate Westermair
Pre-Munich
Jens Lallensack: Geometric morphometric analysis of intratrackway variability. University of Bonn, PhD (co-advised with Prof. Martin Sander)
Philipp Knaus: Blood flow into the femur and aerobic capacity in synapsids since the Synapsida-Sauropsida split, University of Bonn, MSc (co-advised with Prof. Martin Sander)
Antoine Gossez: Asymmetry and laterality in human phalanges. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, MSc
Jippe Kreuning, Marie Beth van Egmond, Roland van Dierendonck and Sjang ten Hagen: Mass reconstruction of the Dodo. University of Amsterdam, Interdisciplinary BSc (co-advised with Dr. Kenneth Rijsdijk)