ECR Spotlight – Alexander Clark

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. Alexander Clark is an author on ‘ Biomechanics of raptorial dorsiflexion and tensile material properties of the m. tibialis cranialis tendon in the hindlimbs of hawks and owls’, published in JEB. Alexander is a PhD candidate in the lab of Jingmai O'Connor (however, Mark Westneat, a committee member, was the professor associated with this research) at University of Chicago, USA, investigating the evolution and interaction of avian morphology and behavior throughout time.