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Laura Porro
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
375 Points

Contributions by role

Author 270
Reviewer 105

Contributions by subject area

Computational Biology
Paleontology
Taxonomy
Anatomy and Physiology
Histology
Zoology
Radiology and Medical Imaging
Bioengineering
Agricultural Science
Biophysics
Evolutionary Studies

Laura B Porro

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, graduating with degrees in Biological Sciences and Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2004. I then completed my PhD in Palaeobiology (funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship) in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge in 2009, investigating anatomy and cranial biomechanics in early ornithischian dinosaurs.

As a postodcotoral scholar in the Department of Organismal Biology at the University of Chicago (2008 -2012) I used in vivo experimental methods and computer modeling to understand skull mechanics in crocodilians, lizards and primates. From 2012 - 2014, I was a Marie Curie Research Fellow based in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol exploring changes in morphology and function in the early tetrapod lower jaw across the water-land transition. From 2014 - 2017 I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Structure and Motion Laboratory of the Royal Veterinary College looking at the evolution of locomotion in amphibians, integrating data from in vivo and in vitro experiments, computer modelling and paleo-robotics. I briefly returned to Bristol as a Senior Research Associate (2017 - 2018) working on my own NERC-funded project.

I was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London (UCL) in Autumn 2018.

Anatomy & Physiology Computational Biology Paleontology Zoology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University College London
University of London
The Royal Veterinary College

Work details

Lecturer in Topographical Anatomy

University College London, University of London
September 2018
Cell and Developmental Biology
Lecturer in human anatomy and researcher in evolutionary biomechanics, using experiments, computer modelling and 3D visualization to understand the link between organismal form, function and large-scale evolutionary events.

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
January 8, 2019
Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) including computed tomography and digital reconstruction of a three-dimensional skull
Dean R. Lomax, Laura B. Porro, Nigel R. Larkin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6112 PubMed 30643690
December 21, 2015
Digital preparation and osteology of the skull of Lesothosaurus diagnosticus (Ornithischia: Dinosauria)
Laura B. Porro, Lawrence M. Witmer, Paul M. Barrett
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1494 PubMed 26713245