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Our Faculty
Hello My Name is Michael Habib Michael Habib
Chatham Faculty

Assistant Professor

Hometown : Baltimore, MD

Joined Chatham : 2009

Academic Areas of Interest
Flight biomechanics and paleontology, Biology

Personal Areas of Interest
Kung Fu, Illustration, Orchids, Inline Skating, and Backpacking

Biography
I am originally from Baltimore, MD. I completed my B.A. and M.S. work at the University of Virginia, and my Ph.D. work at Johns Hopkins. My academic interests fall mostly in the realm of anatomy, biomechanics, and comparative zoology. I am particularly interested in flight biomechanics, and have focused recently on the flight abilities of giant Late Cretaceous pterosaurs, which were the largest flying animals of all time. I also work on problems related to the flight performance and skeletal reinforcement of living birds and bats. Outside of academia, I involve myself in Kung Fu training, as well as inline skating, illustration, and orchid growing.
Publications
Habib, M. in press. The structural mechanics and evolution of aquaflying birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. xx:xxx-xxx
Habib M. 2008. Comparative evidence for quadrupedal launch in pterosaurs. Pp 161-168 in Buffetaut E, and DWE Hone, eds. Wellnhofer Pterosaur Meeting: Zitteliana B28
Jones KE, Bielby J, Cardillo M … Habib M (15/24) … Purvis A. 2009. PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life-history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals (Data Paper). Ecology 90(9): 2648
Habib, M. and C. B. Ruff. 2008. The effects of locomotion on the structural characteristics of avian limb bones. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 601-624
Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., K. E. Jones, S. A. Price, R. Grenyer, M. Cardillo, M. Habib, A. Purvis, and J. L. Gittleman. 2003. Supertrees are a Necessary Not-So-Evil: A Comment on Gatesy et al. Systematic Biology. 52:724-729.
Awards
Discover Magazine: Top 100 Science Stories of 2009 (#76)
Jurassic Foundation Grant - Biomechanical contrasts of Cretaceous birds and pterosaurs (2008)
Jurassic Foundation Grant - Structural properties in Archaeopteryx and the origin of avian flight (2007)
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