Erica Baken, Ph.D.

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Hometown: Golden Valley, MN

ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST

Morphological macroevolution, Biology

PERSONAL AREAS OF INTEREST

Playing and coaching Ultimate Frisbee, Indoor Gardening, and Crafting

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BIOGRAPHY

I (she/her) received my B.A. in Biology from Pomona College in 2012 and my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Iowa State University in 2020. After primarily studying the macroevolution of functional morphology in lungless salamanders through my doctorate, I have shifted my field of research towards invertebrates. As a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Michael Collyer's lab, I am developing a user-friendly interface for one of the most useful statistical and visualization tools in computational and evolutionary biology (R package, geomorph), while researching the macroevolutionary patterns of form and function for beetle elytra.