Eloise Hunt

Eloise is an evolutionary morphologist who is broadly interested in the evolution of form and function. Eloise completed her BSc at Imperial College London before attaining her Palaeobiology master's degree at the University of Bristol. Following this, she began her PhD at the Natural History Museum London, supervised by Professor Anjali Goswami and Professor Joseph Tobias, funded by the NERC SSCP DTP. Eloise is using 3D imaging, high-density geometric morphometrics, phylogenetic comparative methods, and evolutionary analyses to elucidate the complex intrinsic and extrinsic influences on avian skull morphology. Eloise is at the Pierce lab to investigate the interplay between avian skull shape variation and biomechanical performance.