Karl T. Bates
Adaptive Organismal Biology Research Group
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Adaptive Organismal Biology Research Group
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Stopford Building
Oxford Road
Manchester, M13 9PL
United Kingdom

I received a BSc. Geology (2005) and an MPhil (2006) from the School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Science at the University of Manchester. My passion for palaeontology was fostered during my undergraduate studies in geology, and also over two summers spent as a research assistant in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London. My Masters research project introduced me to digital imaging and modelling techniques and spawned an interest in dinosaur locomotion through work on fossil tracks and trackways. In 2006 I moved to Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester to work in the lab of Dr Bill Sellers on musculoskeletal modelling and computer simulations of locomotion in theropod dinosaurs and other extinct and extant bipeds for my PhD dissertation.