Mark Westneat
Professor at The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMark Westneat is a professor and evolutionary biologist with over three decades of experience studying biodiversity, biomechanics, and the evolutionary history of coral reefs and reef fishes. Based at the University of Chicago after long tenure as Curator of Fishes and Director of the Biodiversity Synthesis Center at the Field Museum, he blends hands-on organismal biology with large-scale computational approaches to explore form, function, and diversification. His work investigates how muscle, tendon, and bone produce complex behaviors and leverages big biological datasets to reframe questions in conservation and evolution. Trained at Duke (Ph.D.) and The College of Wooster, he is as comfortable in the field collecting specimens as he is developing computational pipelines to synthesize biodiversity data. A distinctive strength is connecting detailed biomechanical insight with macroevolutionary patterns to reveal how organismal design shapes — and is shaped by — ecological and evolutionary change.
12 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Biology, Ph.D., Biology at Duke UniversityBiology, Biology at The College of Wooster
Github Skills (8)
concert7
api7
geneontology6
anatomy5
monarchinitiative5
ontology5
owl4
bioinformatics4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mwestneat/WingMorph
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
mwestneat/MandibLever2018
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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