Martin Häusler

Martin Häusler is the head of the Evolutionary Morphology Group and the scientific head of the Human Remains Collection at the University of Zurich's Institute of Evolutionary Medicine.  He earned his PhD in anthropology and his medical degree from the University of Zurich, focusing his doctoral research on the evolution of bipedalism in Australopithecus africanus and spinal pathologies throughout human evolution.  Following a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Davis, Dr. Häusler returned to Zurich, where he lectured at the Anthropological Institute and served as a senior researcher at the Institute of Forensic Medicine.  Since 2013, he has led the Evolutionary Morphology and Adaptation Group at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and lectures at the Institute of Anatomy.  His research interests include the evolution of musculoskeletal disorders related to bipedal locomotion, low back pain, childbirth evolution, hominid body proportions, and paleopathology.