Tom O'Mahoney

Tom was appointed as Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences in 2020. His lab group focusses on developmental anatomy and imaging and makes extensive use of the School of Life Sciences' dedicated facilities for imaging and analysis. He is a member of the Behavioural Ecology Research Group.

Tom joined ARU in February 2019 after completing his PhD on morphometrics at the University of Manchester as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the project “The evolution of language: insights from laryngeal anatomy”. He oversees the 3D work packages for this and as part of this project has developed new machine-learning based workflows. He also helps to look after the Harrison Mammalian larynx collection, which is curated at ARU.

Tom’s research to date has been mainly focussed on human developmental, primate, and avian anatomy as well as Palaeolithic archaeology. He is especially interested in the development of automated techniques for the processing of 3D data and increasingly, the application of machine learning to this.

He is also interested in the refinement of developmental data for forensic purposes and the combination of structural and chemical signatures of bone growth and mineralisation.