Marcello Ruta

Dr Marcello Ruta was a PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, and The Natural History Museum, London. He became a postdoc at UCL, and then moved to Chicago where he spent a few years as a postdoc at the University of Chicago and at the Field Museum of Natural History. After returning to the UK, he embarked on another postdoc at University of Bristol, before being hired at University of Lincoln in 2012. Marcello's interests revolve around phylogeny reconstruction, phylogenetic comparative methods, and shape analysis. He is primarily interested in early tetrapods, or limbed vertebrates