Postdoctoral researcher
Paleoprimatology & Paleoanthropology

I am a paleoanthropologist interested in the evolution of locomotion and posture, including the origins, specialization and diversification of locomotor behaviors of hominoid primates and hominins, with emphasis on hominoid locomotor evolution and the origins of the upright posture and bipedalism. I use innovative 3D biomedical and engineering techniques to analyze the internal and external bone morphology of extant and fossil ape forelimb and spine, and cadaveric dissection studies to account for soft tissue morphology and constraints (which is usually overlooked).

After obtaining my Master’s in Human Biology (2010), I conducted my PhD (2014) on the external morphology of the glenohumeral (shoulder) joint using three-dimensional geometric morphometric (3DGM) techniques. After completing my PhD, I was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Kent, UK (2016-2019) to explore Miocene ape locomotion via the application of innovative analysis of internal bone structure (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/703608). In 2019, I was awarded a Beatriu de Pinós–MSCA COFUND fellowship at ICP (2020-2023) to continue working on the internal morphology of bones of Miocene apes and introduce this innovative technique to Spain.

I am now a researcher at ICP working on external and internal Miocene ape and catarrhine bone and soft tissue morphology.

Research interest:

• Hominoid locomotion
• Hominin and hominoid evolution
• Hominoid forelimb musculoskeletal adaptations/biomechanics
• Miocene ape and hominin locomotor behavior inferences
• Bone external and internal morphology analyses
• The evolution of the orthograde body plan and the origins of bipedalism

Contact and research outputs:

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• ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia_Arias-Martorell
• Academia profile: https://icp-cat.academia.edu/JuliaAriasMartorell

Predoctoral researcher. Paleoprimatology and Human paleontology 

(Perpignan, 1995)

Graduated in Biology of the Organisms Populations and Ecosystems (University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France, 2016) and holding a Master’s degree in Biodiversity Ecology and Evolution with a specialization in Integrative Biological Anthropology (University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France, 2018) he has been involved for two years in projects dealing with the South African cercopithecoid fossil record under the supervision of Dr. Amélie Beaudet. In particular, through the application of 3D-imaging techniques, he explored the endocranial shape asymmetries and their changes within the cercopithecoid lineage and recently studied the inner craniodental morphology of the Papio specimen (U.W. 88-886) from the hominin-bearing site of Malapa, South Africa, for its implications in both papionin evolutionary history and emergence of modern baboons. For this latter project he stayed for three months at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).

Presently he is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Paleoprimatology and Human Paleontology department of the Institut Català de Paleontologia (ICP) under the supervision of Prof. Salvador Moyà-Solà and Dr. David Alba. His thesis focuses on the craniodental anatomy of Pliobates cataloniae (Alba et al., 2015) with the aim of refining its taxonomy as well as its phylogenetic position within non-cercopithecoid catarrhines. This taxon has critical implications for the understanding of hominoid evolutionary history.

His project is funded by the FPI grant from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Gobierno de España) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), co-funded by the Fondo Social Europeo (FSE).

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ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian_Bouchet

Cap del grup de recerca en Paleoprimatologia i Paleontologia hkumana

'Beatriu de Pinós' postdoctoral researcher

(La Roca del Vallès, 1981)

Bachelor Science degree (Marine Biology) from Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, USA. February 2004.

Graduate degree in Marine Sciences from Universidad de Cádiz. August 2007.

During 2007 and 2008 she worked as a field paleontologist at the Can Mata rubbish dump (Els Hostalets de Pierola, Anoia), where she began to get attracted to Paleontology.

Master's degree in Paleontology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat de Barcelona. July 2009.

Her doctoral thesis was on the Eocene Primates from the Iberian Peninsula,  under the supervision of Dr. Salvador Moyà-Solà.

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