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Stephen Gatesy is a Professor Emeritus in Medical Science and Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University in 1983 and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1989. His research interests focus on understanding the evolution of vertebrate locomotion, especially in relation to bipedal dinosaurs and their living relatives. Gatesy has been instrumental in developing X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM), a technique that combines biomechanical modeling with high-speed X-ray imaging to study limb movement in vertebrates. He strives to integrate data from both living animals and fossils to explore locomotor evolution, bridging the gap between paleontologists and biologists studying extant species. Gatesy's work has received funding from the National Science Foundation for various projects involving 3D motion analysis and fossil track interpretation. He also teaches in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program at Brown, where he supervises student research and teaches courses on topics in ecology and evolution.
Department: Department of Economics