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Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University and Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Vertebrate paleontology and comparative anatomy.
Contact: bhart-anjan.bhullar@yale.edu
Postdoctoral Researchers
Coming soon.
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Graduate Students
2022-present. Reptile evolution during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Evolution and development of the nervous system in Sauria.
2024-present. Origins and persistence of the tetrapod body plan: limb girdles and regionalized spine.
2025-present. Evolution and development of avian flight mechanics. Dinosaur-bird transition.
Undergraduate Students
Luis Nguyen
2025-present. Functional anatomy of alvarezsaurian forelimbs.
Drake Christianson
2026-present. Background in astrophysics and archaeology. Cretaceous squamate evolution.
Aidan Skelly
2026-present. Early caudate morphology.
Lab Alumni
Graduate 2019-2026. Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at Stony Brook University. Early Coelurosaur and Crocodylomorph anatomy and phylogenetics. Dromaeosaur anatomy and alpha taxonomy.
Graduate Student 2018-2024. Now: Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at NMNH. Early evolution of amniotes, with emphasis on skeletal anatomy of early reptiles. Sensory evolution.
Graduate Student 2016-2021. Now: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Sorbonne. Musculoskeletal development and homology across Tetrapoda.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2016-2019. Now: Assistant Professor of Biology at Catholic University of Chilé.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2022-2026. Now: Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Synovial joint evolution, development, and functional morphology.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2020-2023. Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Palatal evolution and development in amniotes.
Graduate Student 2015-2022 (co-advised with Günter Wagner). Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Michigan. Evolution, development, and function of facial musculature.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2016-2019. Now: Researcher at Catholic University of Chilé.
Graduate 2018-2025. Now: Postdoctoral Researcher at Florida Museum of Natural History. Limb evolution and development in aquatic tetrapods. Cranial evolution, function, and development of archosaurs.
Graduate Student 2015-2021. Now: Assistant Professor of Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University. Brain and braincase co-evolution and development in archosaurs.
Feng Li
Visiting PhD Student 2017.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2020-2024. Now: Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Princeton. Archosaurs. Locomotor evolution and development.
Michael Hanson
Graduate Student 2014-2022. Avialan cranial evolution, function, and development.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2015-2017. Now: Assistant Curator of Paleontology at Virginia Museum of Natural History.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2022-2024. Now: Assistant Professor of Biology at Utah Valley. Morphological adaptation in the fossil record.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2018-2021. Now: Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina Charlotte. Molecular evolution of olfactory and neural genes, brain evo-devo.
Postdoctoral Researcher 2018-2019. Now: Research Scientist at RIKEN Institute for Developmental Biology.
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2016. Now: Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences and Strickland Curator of Ornithology at Cambridge University.