# People ## Faculty [### Stephanie E Pierce ](/people/stephanie-pierce) Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Stephanie E. Pierce is a trained paleontologist, anatomist, functional morphologist and evolutionary biomechanist. She completed a BSc degree in palaeontology at the University of Alberta, Canada, which included an honors thesis on the anatomy and... ![pierce_head_shot.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/pierce_head_shot.png?itok=KF1LgYj5) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/people) ## Postdoctoral Fellows [### Amandine Gilett ](/people/amandine-gilett)Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Manchester Amandine's research interests lie into understanding the relationship between the morphology, kinematics, ecology and evolutionary history of large aquatic vertebrates with an emphasis on cetaceans.She thrives on applying multidisciplinary approaches to... ![Amandine Gillet Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/amandine_gillet_headshot.jpg?itok=Eeyudlfc) [### Peter Bishop ](/people/peter-bishop) Postdoctoral Fellow Originally from Australia, Peter has had a lifelong passion for palaeontology, geology and mathematics. He gained a BAppSc (Hons) in Geosciences from the Queensland University of Technology in 2012, completed his PhD in Evolutionary Biomechanics from... ![Peter Bishop](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/peter.png?itok=F9sUOyaV) [### Rodrigo Figueroa ](/people/rodrigo-figueroa) Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow Rodrigo has a passion for fossil collection and taxonomy since childhood when he found his first fossils. Years of fossil hunting and reading about extinct faunas forged his interest in understanding how life on Earth has evolved and changed over geologic... ![rodrigo_tinoco_figueroa headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/rodrigo_tinoco_figueroa_cropped.png?itok=qm2B6kB_) [### Arielli F. Machado ](/people/arielli-f-machado)Postdoctoral Fellow Arielli is a Brazilian researcher specializing in ecology and biogeography. She has led studies on the impacts of environmental and climate change on biodiversity and has collaborated on various projects related to animal biology, ecology and evolution... ![Arielli_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/arielli.png?itok=OXJW1WVF) [### Voltaire Paes Neto ](/people/voltaire-paes-neto)Postdoctoral Fellow Voltaire is a Brazilian paleontologist focused on early archosaurs and other permo-triassic tetrapod groups. During his PhD, he study the South American aetosaur taxonomy and ontogeny, conducting research at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona... ![voltaire_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/voltaire.png?itok=oHU_Cos7) ## Graduate Students [### Tina Kuang ](/people/tina-kuang) Graduate Student Tina completed her BSc in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. During her time at Berkeley, she studied Fox squirrel jumping and landing biomechanics and worked on bio-inspired robotics in Prof. Robert Full’s Lab. She also worked in Prof. Jack Tseng’s lab... ![Tina](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/thumbnail_tina_bird_copy.jpg?itok=k9Z0suu7) [### Ethan Mooney ](/people/ethan-mooney) [ethan\_mooney@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:ethan_mooney@fas.harvard.edu)Graduate Student Ethan is an avid explorer of all things natural history and earth sciences. During completion of his HBSc and MSc with the University of Toronto, his broad interests culminated in a variety of exciting research on various Palaeozoic tetrapods with a focus... ![Ethan Mooney, graduate student](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-03/Ethan_mooney_headshot.jpeg?h=69b6a0cd&itok=Ujpe5i8M) [### Catie Strong ](/people/catie-strong) Graduate Student Catie completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Alberta, with her Master’s research (supervised by Dr Michael Caldwell) focussing on skull evolution in burrowing snakes. She is interested in using quantitative techniques to explore the interplay... ![Catie Strong Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/cstrong_fieldworkshot_cropped.jpg?itok=f5pBCYfy) ## Visiting Scholars [### Letícia Rezende de Oliveira ](/people/let%C3%ADcia-rezende-de-oliveira) Visiting Graduate Student Letícia is a Brazilian PhD student with experience on vertebrate paleontology, focused on comparative anatomy, paleobiology, fossil preparation and digital reconstructions with emphasis on Triassic vertebrates. Her BCs and MCs degree were at the Federal... ![Leticia headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/leticia_headshot.png?itok=7eUTi0O-) ## Staff [### Tracy Barbaro ](/people/tracy-barbaro) Lab Administrator ![tbarbaro](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/spierce/files/barbaro_tracy_72dpi_1.jpg?itok=zhMEH_UG)