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<h1 style='text-align:center;' >Curriculum Vitae</h1><br />
<h4 style='text-align:center;' ><strong>Aaron M Olsen</strong></h4>
<h5 style='text-align:center;' ><strong>E-mail</strong>: aarolsen at gmail dot com</h5>
<h3>Research Interests</h3>
<ul class='none' >
Evolution of musculoskeletal systems, skeletal biomechanics, motion analysis, shape analysis
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<h3>Education</h3>
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<li><strong>University of Chicago</strong></li>
<ul class='disc' >
<li>Ph.D. Integrative Biology, 2016, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy</li>
<ul class='none' >
<li>“Patterns of Morphological and Functional Evolution in the Feeding System of Waterfowl (Anseriformes): Insights from Diet, Beak Shape, and Cranial Mechanics”</li>
<li>Advisor: <a href='https://westneatlab.uchicago.edu/' target='_blank' >Mark Westneat</a></li>
</ul>
<li>S.M. Integrative Biology, 2011, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy</li>
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<li><strong>University of Kansas</strong></li>
<ul class='disc' >
<li>B.S. Biochemistry with university honors, 2009</li>
<li>B.A. Languages for Humanitarian Aid (special major), 2009</li>
</ul>
<li><strong>University of Murcia, Spain</strong></li>
<ul class='disc' >
<li>Study abroad, 2006-2007 academic year</li>
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<h3>Academic Appointments</h3>
<table class='cv_date_range' >
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2021-pres.</td><td>Founder, <a href='https://www.3danatomystudios.com' >3D Anatomy Studios</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2018-2021</td><td>Anatomy Teaching & Research Postdoc, Brown University (<a href='http://elizabeth-brainerd.squarespace.com/' target='_blank' >Brainerd lab</a>)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2016-2018</td><td>NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University (<a href='http://elizabeth-brainerd.squarespace.com/' target='_blank' >Brainerd lab</a>)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2009-2016</td><td>Ph.D. student, University of Chicago (<a href='https://westneatlab.uchicago.edu/' target='_blank' >Westneat lab</a>)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2010-2016</td><td>Resident Graduate Student, Field Museum of Natural History</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2012-2013</td><td>NSF Moto-IGERT Fellow, University of Chicago</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2009</td><td>Research assistant, <a href='https://www.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/hauck/' target='_blank' >Hauck lab</a>, University of Konstanz, Germany</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2006-2008</td><td>Undergraduate research assistant, <a href='https://molecularbiosciences.ku.edu/robert-ward' target='_blank' >Ward lab</a>, University of Kansas</td></tr>
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<h3>Grants, awards and fellowships</h3>
<table class='cv_date_range' >
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2017</td><td>Best Dissertation Award, Biological Sciences, University of Chicago</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2016-2018</td><td><a href='https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612230' target='_blank' >NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology</a> ($138,000)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2016</td><td>Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship (I declined this to accept the PRFB)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2011-2015</td><td>NSF Graduate Research Fellowship</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2012-2013</td><td>NSF Moto-IGERT Research Award ($2000)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2011-2012</td><td>University of Chicago Hinds Research Award ($1459)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2009</td><td>DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship (4,485€)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2007</td><td>K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Scholarship ($5,700)</td></tr>
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<h3>Peer-reviewed publications <notex><a href='https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=ovS1G-MAAAAJ' target='_blank' name='View Google Scholar profile' title='View Google Scholar profile' ><img style='position:relative;top:4px;' height=20 src='img/icons/google scholar.png' /></a></notex></h3>
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<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Aiello BR, <strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Mathis CE, Westneat MW & Hale ME (2019). Pectoral fin kinematics and motor patterns are shaped by fin ray mechanosensation during steady swimming in <em>Scarus quoyi</em>. <em>Journal of Experimental Biology</em>. jeb.211466. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.211466' target='_blank'>10.1242/jeb.211466</a>.</p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> (2019). A mobility-based classification of closed kinematic chains in biomechanics and implications for motor control. <em>Journal of Experimental Biology</em>. 222:jeb195735. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.195735' target='_blank'>10.1242/jeb.195735</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/21/jeb195735' target='_blank' >via JEB</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337060626_A_mobility-based_classification_of_closed_kinematic_chains_in_biomechanics_and_implications_for_motor_control' target='_blank' >via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Coates MI, Tietjen K, <strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Finarelli JA (2019). High-performance suction feeding in an early elasmobranch. <em>Science Advances</em>. 5(9). eaax2742. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax2742' target='_blank'>10.1126/sciadv.aax2742</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaax2742.abstract' target='_blank' >via ScienceAdvances</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335754198_High-performance_suction_feeding_in_an_early_elasmobranch' target='_blank' >via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Hernandez LP, Camp AL & Brainerd EL (2019). Channel catfish use higher coordination to capture prey than to swallow. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B</em>. 286(1901). DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0507' target='_blank'>10.1098/rspb.2019.0507</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0507' target='_blank' >via Royal Society Publishing</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332542984_Channel_catfish_use_higher_coordination_to_capture_prey_than_to_swallow' target='_blank' > via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Rico-Guevara A, Sustaita D, Gussekloo SWS, <strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Bright JA, Corbin CE, Dudley R (2019). Feeding in Birds: Thriving in Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Aerial Niches. In: Bels V., Whishaw I. (eds) Feeding in Vertebrates. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. <notex> Get via <a href='https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-13739-7_17' target='_blank' >Springer</a>, via <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332602725_Feeding_in_Birds_Thriving_in_Terrestrial_Aquatic_and_Aerial_Niches' target='_blank' >ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Aiello BR, Hardy AR, Cherian C, <strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Orsbon CP, Hale ME & Westneat MW (2018). A comparison of pectoral fin ray morphology and its impact on fin ray flexural stiffness in labriform swimmers. <em>Journal of Morphology</em>. 279(8):1031-1044. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20830' target='_blank'>10.1002/jmor.20830</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmor.20830' target='_blank' >via Wiley</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Aiello BR, Hardy AR, Cherian C, <strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Ahn S, Hale ME & Westneat MW (2018). The relationship between pectoral fin stiffness and swimming behavior in Labridae: insights into design, performance, and ecology. <em>Journal of Experimental Biology</em>. 221(1). DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.163360' target='_blank'>10.1242/jeb.163360</a>.<notex> Get <a href='http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2017/11/21/jeb.163360' target='_blank' >via JEB</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321252492_The_relationship_between_pectoral_fin_ray_stiffness_and_swimming_behavior_in_Labridae_insights_into_design_performance_and_ecology' target='_blank' >via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>*, Camp AL* & Brainerd EL (2017). The opercular mouth-opening mechanism of largemouth bass functions as a 3D four-bar linkage with three degrees of freedom. <em>Journal of Experimental Biology</em>. 220:4612-4623. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.159079' target='_blank'>10.1242/jeb.159079</a>.<notex> Get <a href='http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/24/4612' target='_blank' >via JEB</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321784106_The_opercular_mouth-opening_mechanism_of_largemouth_bass_functions_as_a_3D_four-bar_linkage_with_three_degrees_of_freedom' target='_blank' >via ResearchGate</a>.</notex>*Equal author contributions</p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Westneat MW, Aiello BR, <strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Hale ME (2017). Bioinspiration From Flexible Propulsors: Organismal Design, Mechanical Properties, Kinematics and Neurobiology of Pectoral Fins in Labrid Fishes. <em>Marine Technology Society Journal</em>. 51(5):23-34. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.51.5.3' target='_blank'>10.4031/MTSJ.51.5.3</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.51.5.3' target='_blank' >via Ingenta</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> (2017). Feeding ecology is the primary driver of beak shape diversification in waterfowl. <em>Functional Ecology</em>. 31(10):1985-1995. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12890' target='_blank'>10.1111/1365-2435.12890</a>.<notex> Get <a href='http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12890/full' target='_blank' >via Wiley</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317316889_Feeding_ecology_is_the_primary_driver_of_beak_shape_diversification_in_waterfowl' target='_blank' > via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'>Delacy CR, <strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Chapman DD, Brooks EJ & Bond ME (2017). Affordable and accurate stereo-video system for measuring dimensions underwater- a case study using Oceanic Whitetip sharks (<em>Carcharhinus longimanus</em>). <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series</em>. 574:75-84. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12190' target='_blank'>10.3354/meps12190</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12190' target='_blank' >via MEPS</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316892145_Affordable_and_accurate_stereo-video_system_for_measuring_dimensions_underwater_A_case_study_using_oceanic_whitetip_sharks_Carcharhinus_longimanus?ev=prf_high' target='_blank' >via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Westneat MW (2016). Linkage mechanisms in the vertebrate skull: Structure and function of three-dimensional, parallel transmission systems. <em>Journal of Morphology</em>. 277:1570-1583. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20596' target='_blank'>10.1002/jmor.20596</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20596' target='_blank' >via Wiley</a>, <a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307557370_Linkage_mechanisms_in_the_vertebrate_skull_Structure_and_function_of_three-dimensional_parallel_transmission_systems' target='_blank' >via ResearchGate</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> (2015). Exceptional avian herbivores: multiple transitions toward herbivory in the bird order Anseriformes and its correlation with body mass. <em>Ecology and Evolution</em>. 5(21):5016-5032. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1787' target='_blank'>10.1002/ece3.1787</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1787/full' target='_blank' >via Wiley (open access)</a>.</notex></p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Westneat MW (2015). StereoMorph: an R package for the collection of 3D landmarks and curves using a stereo camera setup. <em>Methods in Ecology and Evolution</em>. 6:351-356. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12326' target='_blank'>10.1111/2041-210X.12326</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12326/abstract' target='_blank' >via Wiley (open access)</a>.</notex></p></li>
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<h3>Non peer-reviewed publications</h3>
<ul>
<li><p class='hangingindent'>Westneat, M. W., & Olsen, A. M. (2015). How fish power suction feeding, a commentary on <a href='https://www.pnas.org/content/112/28/8690' target='_blank'>Swimming muscles power suction feeding in largemouth bass</a>. <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em>. 112(28):8525-8526. DOI: <a href='https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1510522112' target='_blank'>10.1073/pnas.1510522112</a>.<notex> Get <a href='https://www.pnas.org/content/112/28/8525.short' target='_blank' >via PNAS</a>.</notex></p></li>
</ul>
<h3>Published Software <notex><a href='https://github.com/aaronolsen' target='_blank' name='View Github site' title='View Github site' ><img style='position:relative;top:4px;' height=20 src='img/icons/github.png' /></a></notex></h3>
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<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Romero, A (2019). <a href='software/svgviewr.html' >svgViewR</a>: 3D Animated Interactive Visualizations using SVG. R package version 1.4. <a href='https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=svgViewR' target='_blank' >CRAN.R-project.org/package=svgViewR</a>.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Haber A (2018). <a href='software/stereomorph.html' >StereoMorph</a>: Stereo Camera Calibration and Reconstruction. R package version 1.6.2. <a href='https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=StereoMorph' target='_blank' >CRAN.R-project.org/package=StereoMorph</a>.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> (2016). <a href='software/linkr.html' >linkR</a>: 3D Lever and Linkage Mechanism Modeling. R package version 1.1.1. <a href='https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=linkR' target='_blank' >CRAN.R-project.org/package=linkR</a>.</p></li>
<notex><li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> (2018). <a href='https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bezier' target='_blank' >bezier</a>: Bezier Curve and Spline Toolkit. R package version 1.1.2. <a href='https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bezier' target='_blank' >CRAN.R-project.org/package=bezier</a>.</p></li></notex>
</ul>
<h3>Press coverage of research</h3>
<ul>
<li><p class='hangingindent'>Gorman, J (2017). ‘How It Works: The Large Mouth of the Largemouth Bass’. <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/science/largemouth-bass-jaw.html' target='_blank'><em>New York Times, ScienceTake</em>. 26 Dec, D6</a>. (Coverage of <a href='https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.159079' target='_blank'>Olsen et al. 2017</a>)</p></li>
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<h3>Teaching Experience</h3>
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<li><strong>Total student contact hours:</strong> 588</li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Gross Anatomy</strong> (62.5 hrs), Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University. Member of 9-person team teaching staff. Academic year 2019-20. [Student evaluations not yet collected]</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Gross Anatomy</strong> (62.5 hrs), Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University. Member of 10-person team teaching staff. Academic year 2018-19. <a href='teaching/Teaching evaluations, Anatomy, 2018-2019.pdf' target='_blank' >[Student evaluations]</a></p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Gross Anatomy and histology</strong> (pelvis; 24 hrs), Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Callum Ross. Fall 2015. [Student evaluations not collected]</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Gross Anatomy and histology</strong> (human development, thorax, abdomen, pelvis; 86 hrs), Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Callum Ross. Fall 2014. [Student evaluations not collected]</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Gross Anatomy</strong> (thorax, abdomen, pelvis, head & neck; 107 hrs), Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Callum Ross. Fall 2013. <a href='teaching/TA evaluations, The Human Body, Fall 2013.pdf' target='_blank' >[Student evaluations]</a></p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Gross Anatomy</strong> (human development, abdomen, pelvis, limbs; 96 hrs), Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Callum Ross. Fall 2012. <a href='teaching/TA evaluations, The Human Body, Fall 2012.pdf' target='_blank' >[Student evaluations]</a></p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy</strong> (50 hrs), Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Mark Westneat. Spring 2012. [Student evaluations not collected]</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Computational Neuroscience II</strong> (50 hrs), Graduate Program in Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Sliman Bensmaia. Winter 2011. <a href='teaching/TA Evaluations, Computational neuroscience II, Winter 2010.pdf' target='_blank' >[Student evaluations]</a></p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Chordate Evolutionary Biology</strong> (50 hrs), Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago. Teaching assistant for Dr. Michael Coates. Spring 2011. <a href='teaching/TA Evaluations, Chordate Evolutionary Biology, Spring 2011.pdf' target='_blank' >[Student evaluations]</a></p></li>
</ul>
<h3>Invited Oral Presentations</h3>
<ol reversed>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>. <em>What's going on (biomechanically) in a catfish head?</em> Departmental seminar at University of Massachusetts Lowell; 2018 Sep 12; Lowell, MA.</p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>. <em>Animals with highly mobile heads and what they can tell us about the evolution of motor systems</em>. Departmental seminar at Stonehill College; 2017 Nov 10; North Easton, MA.</p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>. <em>Animals with highly mobile heads and what they can tell us about the evolution of motor systems</em>. Departmental seminar at Clemson University; 2017 Sep 29; Clemson, SC.</p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Brainerd EL. <em>Uncovering mechanisms of mouth expansion in catfish using X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology</em>. Paper presented in the Insights from Animal Biomechanics Symposium at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting; 2017 Aug 8-11; Boulder, CO.</p></li>
<li class='ol' ><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Hernandez LP, Camp AL & Brainerd EL. <em>Linking morphology and motion: Testing multibody simulations against in vivo cranial kinematics in suction feeding fishes using XROMM</em>. Paper presented in the Cranial Biomechanics and Evolution Symposium at the American Association of Anatomists Annual Meeting; 2017 Apr 22-26; Chicago, IL.</p></li>
</ol reversed>
<h3>Oral Presentations (10 most recent)</h3>
<ul>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>. <em>Can Ecology Explain Patterns of Morphological Integration Between Functionally Coupled Structures?</em> Paper presented at: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology; 2019 Jul 21-25; Prague, Czechia.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Hernandez LP, Camp AL & Brainerd EL. <em>Channel catfish use higher coordination to capture prey than to swallow</em>. Paper presented at: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting; 2019 Jan 3-7; Tampa, Florida.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Brainerd EL. <em>An Ancient Throat Expansion Mechanism Functions as an 11-Bar Linkage in Channel Catfish</em>. Paper presented at: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; 2018 Jul 12-15; Rochester, New York.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Hernandez LP, Camp AL & Brainerd EL. <em>Closed loops of joints, rather than the joints themselves, impose the primary motion constraint in the catfish mouth expansion mechanism</em>. Paper presented at: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting; 2018 Jan 3-7; San Francisco, California.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>, Camp AL & Brainerd EL. <em>Balancing complexity and error in kinematic models: fitting 2D and 3D four-bar linkage models to the opercular mechanism of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)</em>. Paper presented at: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting; 2017 Jan 4-8; New Orleans, Louisiana.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Westneat MW. <em>Two levers and a linkage: patterns of morphological and functional diversity in the upper beak, lower beak and cranial linkages of birds</em>. Paper presented at: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting; 2016 Jan 3-7; Portland, Oregon.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Westneat MW. <em>Biological linkage mechanisms as networks</em>. Paper presented at: 6th International Meeting on Cranio-cervical Systems in Vertebrates; 2015 Jul 7-10; Ghent, Belgium.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong> & Westneat MW. <em>When linkages deviate from planarity: A new 3D computational linkage model applied to the cranial linkages of birds and fishes</em>. Paper presented at: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting; 2015 Jan 3-7; West Palm Beach, Florida.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>. <em>Unlocking the diet data of the past: A new R package for compiling and querying diet datasets</em>. Paper presented at: 131st American Ornithologists' Union Meeting; 2014 Sept 23-28; Estes Park, Colorado.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><strong>Olsen AM</strong>. <em>Exceptional avian herbivores: Multiple origins of herbivory in the bird order Anseriformes and its correlation with beak shape and body mass</em>. Paper presented at: Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting; 2014 Jun 20-24; Raleigh, North Carolina.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3>Mentoring</h3>
<ul>Undergraduates supervised
<ul>
<li>Alejandro Romero, Brown University, 2018-pres.</li>
<li>Chahat Rana, Brown University, 2018</li>
<li>Connor Johnson, Brown University, 2018</li>
<li>Shahn Thaliffdeen, Brown University, 2017-2019</li>
<li>Mariah Nuzzo, Brown University, 2017</li>
<li>Bianca Obiakor, Brown University, 2017</li>
<li>Tara Bozzini, Brown University, 2017</li>
<li>Jenna Hewitt-Kenda, Brown University, 2017</li>
<li>Trevor Thompson, University of Chicago, 2012</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<h3>Travel Awards</h3>
<table class='cv_date_single' >
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2018</td><td>Brown University BioMed Postdoc travel award ($650)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2017</td><td>Brown University BioMed Postdoc travel award ($650)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2015</td><td>University of Chicago BSD travel award ($500)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2015</td><td>University of Chicago GRAD travel award ($750)</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Refereed manuscripts (initial submissions, revised submissions)</h3>
<ul>
<li>American Naturalist (2,1)</li>
<li>Biology Letters (1,0)</li>
<li>Evolution (4,0)</li>
<li>Evolutionary Ecology (1,0)</li>
<li>Frontiers in Zoology (1,1)</li>
<li>Integrative and Comparative Biology (2,0)</li>
<li>Journal of Experimental Biology (1,0)</li>
<li>Journal of Morphology (2,2)</li>
<li>Journal of Zoology (1,1)</li>
<li>Methods in Ecology & Evolution (3,1)</li>
<li>North American Bird Bander (1,0)</li>
<li>Paleobiology (1,0)</li>
<li>PNAS (1,0)</li>
<li>Proceedings of the Royal Society B (1,0)</li>
<li>Royal Society Open Science (1,0)</li>
<li>Systematic Biology (1,1)</li>
<li>Zoology (1,0)</li>
<li><strong>Total:</strong> 23,7</li>
</ul>
<h3>Invited Lectures</h3>
<ul>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><em>Biology design: Structural Architecture of Organisms</em>, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University. Course director: Dr. Sharon Swartz. 2017 Oct 20.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><em>Biomechanics of Vertebrate Feeding Systems</em>, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago. Course director: Dr. Callum Ross. 2013 Feb 8.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><em>Development and Evolution of Neuromechanical Systems</em>, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago. Course director: Drs. Melina Hale and Callum Ross. 2013 Apr 26.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3>Science Outreach</h3>
<ul>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><em>Marine Science Club</em>. After-school club at the <a href='http://www.paulcuffee.org/academics/upper-school/' target='_blank' >Paul Cuffee School</a> (grades 9-12) in Providence, RI. Fall 2018.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><em>Biomechanics Design</em>. Summer camp for teens at the Field Museum of Natural History. July 14-25, 2014.</p></li>
<li><p class='hangingindent'><em>Vital Organs: Dissecting the Heart and Brain</em>. Project Exploration after-school Program at Ariel Community Academy (Chicago, IL). March 7, 2012.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3>Societies and Committees</h3>
<table class='cv_date_range' >
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2011-pres.</td><td>Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology (SICB), member</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2014-2016</td><td>Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), member</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2013-2014</td><td>Field Museum Women in Science, Monthly seminar series committee</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2013-2014</td><td>Field Museum Women in Science, Summer internship committee</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Volunteer Service</h3>
<table class='cv_date_range' >
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2010-2015</td><td>Bird Division Volunteer, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2005-2008</td><td>Spanish-English Medical Interpreter, Kansas City, Kansas</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2005-2006</td><td>Director and founder of KU Campus Garden Project, University of Kansas</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_range' >2006-2007</td><td>Youth Mentor (<em>Refuerzo escolar</em>), Murcia city government, Murcia, Spain</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Undergraduate academic awards and honors</h3>
<table class='cv_date_single' >
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2009</td><td>Graduation with university honors</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2009</td><td>Graduation Global Awareness Certification (GAP)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2008</td><td>National IDeA Symposium Travel Stipend ($600)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2007</td><td>Member KU Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2006</td><td>Andrew P. Debicki ISEP Scholarship ($2000)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2005</td><td>CE Spahr Fund ($480)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2004</td><td>KU Summerfield Scholarship ($12,000)</td></tr>
<tr><td class='cv_date_single' >2004</td><td>Thrivent College Scholarship ($4,000)</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>Languages coded</h3>
<ul class='none'>
R, HTML, JavaScript, C++, Matlab, PHP
</ul>
<h3>Languages spoken</h3>
<ul class='none'>
English (native), Spanish (non-native fluent), French (intermediate), German (intermediate)
</ul>
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