Ellen Coombs

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Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I am investigating the trade-off between echolocation and bite force in toothed whales.

From 2016 - 2021, I was a NERC-funded Ph.D. student at University College London and the Natural History Museum with the London NERC DTP. I looked at cetacean diversity through time.

Oxford (MSc), UCL (MRes) and York (BSc First Class Hons) alumna. I have experience in animal welfare education, veterinary education, and project management with an international NGO and have also tutored and written modules for online education courses in environmental science and biology. I am passionate about supporting women in science and other STEM subjects and am a STEMettes mentor.

Experience

  • 2022–2024
    Dr, Smithsonian Institution

Education

  • 2021 
    University College London, PhD Evolutionary Biology
  • 2015 
    University College London, MRes Energy Demand
  • 2011 
    University of Oxford , MSc Biology (integrative biosciences)
  • 2010 
    University of York , BSc Environmental Science (Hons)

Publications

  • 2022
    Current Biology, The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution
  • 2020
    BMC Biology , Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans
  • 2019
    Marine Mammal Science, What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years
  • 2019
    PeerJ, Supernumerary teeth observed in a live True’s beaked whale in the Bay of Biscay
  • 2019
    PeerJ, Combining simulation modeling and stable isotope analyses to reconstruct the last known movements of one of Nature’s giants

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