Emma is an evolutionary biologist and morphometrician. She did her B.Sc. and Ph.D. jointly between the University of Manchester (UK) and the Natural History Museum, London (UK) [a NERC CASE study about her can be found here]. Following that, she crossed the pond to USA to do two postdocs, with Jonathan Losos at Harvard, and Dean Adams at Iowa State University. Then she crossed the world again to take up a fixed-term Lecturer position at University of New England, NSW Australia, and is now a postdoctoral researcher with Scott Keogh. When Emma is not writing code or writing about caecilian amphibians, she is likely bush walking or watching live metal concerts

Emma's research interests lie in understanding Biodiversity, asking how the great diversity in animal forms came about under the influence of various evolutionary processes. She's contributed to our basic understanding of biodiversity, by describing new species, revising taxonomy, and assessing distributions diversity. Her main research focus is in Macroevolution - to identify the patterns and infer processes underlying morphological diversity. She is a specialist in shape analysis (geometric morphometrics and co-authors the popular geomorph R package for the analysis of multivariate datasets) and micro computed tomography (microCT). To date she's studied a variety of organisms including caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona), rabbits (Lagomorpha), scallops (Pectinidae), Anolis lizards, and laboratory mice