Billede af Christy Anna Hipsley
  • Kilde: Scopus
20092024

Publikationer pr. år

Personlig profil

Kort præsentation

My research uses integrative techniques to reconstruct morphological transformations in the 500-million year history of vertebrate life, including bioinformatic, molecular, ecological, paleoclimatic and morphological approaches. In particular, I use X-ray computed tomography, or CT, to generate three-dimensional models of fossil and living organisms for comparison in an evolutionary framework, often using geometric morphometrics. I currently apply these methods to diverse groups such as primates, canids, marine mammals, marsupials, turtles and other reptiles, with the goal of understanding how Cenozoic climate change has shaped morphological and taxonomic variation, and to identify the contexts under which biodiversity is generated and destroyed.

Primære forskningsområder

Evolutionary biology

Vertebrate paleontology

Herpetology

Phenotypic convergence

3D shape analysis

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Palæontologi (Pal)

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Evolutionary Ecology

CV

ORCID 0000-0002-5740-9363

Date of birth December 23, 1977, USA

CONTACT +45 52617701; [email protected]

EDUCATION

Aug 2012 PhD Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Nov 2003 MS (with Honours) Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden

Dec 1999 BS (Cum Laude) Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA

SCIENTIFIC FOCUS AREAS

3D bioimaging integrated with multiomic data. High throughput phenotyping. Herpetology, evolutionary biology, vertebrate paleontology, ecomorphology. Landmark-based geometric morphometrics. Comparative anatomy. Phylogenetic comparative analyses.

POSITIONS

Jan 2023- Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan 2022- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2018-2021  ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow, University of Melbourne (UM)

2015- Research Associate, Melbourne Museum

2015-2017 Research at Melbourne Acceleration Program (RAMAP) Postdoctoral Fellow, UM

2012-2014 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Postdoctoral Researcher, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany  

2011-2012 CT Laboratory Technician, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

2003-2004 Molecular Laboratory Technician, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, USA                                      

2002-2003 Molecular Laboratory Technician, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden  

ACADEMIC AWARDS & HONORS (AMOUNTS IN DKK)

2023 Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Project 1 (2,847,513)

2021 Villum Synergy Grant (co-PI) on Stochastic Morphometry (2,140,000, administered by Department of Computer Science, KU)

2018 Research Grant Support Scheme, University of Melbourne (67,826)

2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (Team), University of Melbourne

2018 Boden Research Conference Award, Australian Academy of Science (45,217)

2018 BioSciences ECR Research Summit, Best Presentation Award (1,492)

2017 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (1,650,697)

2017 University of Melbourne Establishment Grant (222,108)

2017 Michael Mavrogordato Award for the Classification of Australian Animals (7,235)

2016 Early Career Researcher Grant, University of Melbourne (180,870)

2016 Dyason Fellowship, University of Melbourne (22,609)

2015 Ian Potter Foundation Conference Program Award (22,609)

2014 Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Gov. Dept. of Education (113,043)

2010 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects Award (992,68)

2010 Hammett Award, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC (6,617)

2008-2010 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Research & Travel Award, UCSC (6,617)

2010 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award (6,617)

2009-2010 Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Travel Award (14,909)

2009 Graduate Student Association Travel Award, UCSC (3,309)

TEACHING

Evolutionary Ecology, Paleobiology, Animal Structure and Function, Paleobiology and Evolution of Vertebrates, Undergraduate Research in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Development and Physiology, Evolution, Ecology and Evolution, Ecological Field Methods, Human Demographics

STUDENT SUPERVISION

2023- Michael Lind Severinsen (PhD, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen)

2021- Merin Joji (integrated MSc/PhD, University of Copenhagen)

2021- Stine Keibel Blom (MSc, University of Copenhagen)

2021- Dominika Bujnakova (PhD, Oulu University)

2019- Marco Camaiti (PhD, Monash University)

2018-2022 Till Ramm (PhD, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne)

2019-2021 James Sun (MSc, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne)

2016-2018 Axel Newton (PhD, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne)

2016-2017 Sakib Kazi (MSc, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne)

REVIEWER AND GRANT EVALUTATION ACTIVITIES

Senior Editorial Board Member: BMC Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Journal reviewer: Journal of Zoology, PLoS ONE, African Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Morphology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Biology Letters, Evolution, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Anatomy, Salamandra, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Nature Communications, Science Advances

Grant evaluator: Australian Research Council, European Research Council

SELECTED OUTREACH

  • Kulturnatten: contributed display material & posters (2021-2022)
  • Interview: Triple RRR Einstein A Go-Go, 22 Sept 2019
  • Member of discussion panel for ABC’s Science Friction Live event Back from the Dead
  • Member of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) Skink Specialist Group
  • Expert panel speaker, ARC DECRA Forum, University of Melbourne (2018)
  • Featured speaker in Alumni Careers podcast (2018)
  • Filmed children’s science TV show Scope on Tasmanian tiger, ‘Surprise Science’ episode (2018)
  • Featured in teen magazine K-Zone engaging children in STEM research (2018)
  • Co-curator of PostNatural Nature exhibit, MfN (2014)

BIBLIOMETRICS (as of June, 2023)

41 peer-reviewed papers

Google Scholar: H-index 18, Citations 1748

Published papers as first author: 8; as senior author: 2

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (CURRENT KEY COLLABORATORS)

Johannes Mueller, Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Germany; Hussam Zaher,  Sao Paolo, Brazil; Jane Melville, Melbourne Museum, Australia; Rocio Aguilar, Melbourne Museum, Australia; Tom Gilbert, Globe Institute, UCPH; Stefan Sommer, Dept. Computer Science, UCPH; Rasmus Nielsen, Globe Institute, UCPH; Sarah Flanagan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Nikhil Whitaker, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Center for Herpetology, India; Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), India

Uddannelse (Akademiske kvalifikationer)

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz

Dimissionsdato: 31 aug. 2012

Animal Ecology, MSc, Lund University

Dimissionsdato: 14 nov. 2003

Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences, BSc, North Carolina State University

Dimissionsdato: 15 dec. 1999

Eksterne ansættelser

Research Associate, Museum Victoria, Melbourne

Honorary Fellow, School of BioSciences University of Melbourne Melbourne Vic. Australia.

Emneord

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