anne.le.maitre[at]univie.ac.at
Main research question
My primary research interest is in the comprehension of the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms underlying body morphology in vertebrates and especially in primates.
Topics of study
For this, I use diverse quantification tools and multivariate statistics to explore the morphological diversity in extant and fossil species.
My current focus is on the morphological variability, integration and evolvability of the ear in modern and fossil vertebrates, as part of the FWF project “Evolvability of inner and middle ears in birds and mammals”.
I also work on morpho-functional, ontogenetic and phylogenetic aspects of the bony labyrinth and its integration within the cranial base of primates.
Fieldworks
I participate to palaeontological excavations in Pleistocene deposits in northern Greece (PIs Dimitris S. Kostopoulos and Gildas Merceron) and in Eocene deposits in Burma (PI Jean-Jacques Jaeger).
Other connections
- Postdoctoral researcher at the Unit for Theoretical Biology of the Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria (Austrian Science Fundation – FWF project P33736, PI Philipp Mitteröcker) – https://theoretical.univie.ac.at/
- Lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria – https://lifesciences.univie.ac.at/
- Member of the European Society of Human Evolution (ESHE) – https://www.eshe.eu/
Other responsibilities
- Board member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) – https://www.sapweb.fr/index.php/en/
- Member of the Editorial Committee of the Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (BMSAP) – https://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/?lang=en
- Member of Media & Communication team of Women in Biology (WoBio) at the University of Vienna, Austria – https://wobio.univie.ac.at/
