Emeritus Faculty

Prof. Biewener’s research focuses on understanding the biomechanics, neuromuscular control and energetics of animal movement on land and in the air. His goal is to understand general principles that govern the biomechanical and physiological design of...

Prof. Crompton, former Curator of Mammalogy, was the Director of the MCZ from 1970 to 1982, having served as Director of both the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University and the South African Museum in Capetown. His primary research interests...

Prof. Hanken utilizes laboratory-based analyses and field surveys to examine morphological evolution, developmental biology and systematics. Current areas of research include the evolution of craniofacial patterning; the developmental basis of...

Prof. Woollacott’s research focuses on aspects of marine invertebrate life history, such as synchronization of reproductive events and ecology and physiology of larvae. Topics of particular interest include larval dispersal and population connectivity, as...