ECR Spotlight – Morgane Fournier

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Morgane Fournier is an author on ‘ The avian vocal system: 3D reconstruction reveals upper vocal tract elongation during head motion’, published in JEB. Morgane conducted the research described in this article when working as an engineer in Pauline Provini's lab at INSERM, Université Paris Cité. She is now a PhD student in the lab of Anne-Claire Fabre at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Bern, Switzerland, investigating the factors that influence the morphology and function of bones in living animals in order to help reconstruct the ecology of extinct animals.