ECR Spotlight – Adrien A. Arias

Abstract

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 during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Adrien A. Arias is an author on ‘ Modulation of limb mechanics in alligators moving across varying grades’, published in JEB. Adrien conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Manny Azizi's lab at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr Nicole Danos at the University of San Diego, USA, investigating how the morphological and physiological features of vertebrate animals affect muscle–tendon function and mechanical properties.