Julia van Beesel
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Abteilung für Menschliche Ursprünge
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
E-Mail:
julia_van_beesel@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Current job title
Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow
Research interests
My research interests focus on the form-function relationship and its impact on evolution. My focus lies on enhancing our understanding shoulder evolution in hominoids and specifically in hominins. I aim to develop a toolkit that facilitates functional interpretations based on hominin fossil remains.
Collaborative projects
I am currently working on a collaborative project together with TU Delft and the MPI EVA (Philipp Gunz) to create a workflow that streamlines and facilitates the development of new specimen-specific musculoskeletal models. We aim to use the finalized workflow to create musculoskeletal models based on hominin fossil remains.
Career and Education
| 03/2023-03/2025 | Postdoctoral researcher and Walter Benjamin Fellow at KU Lven |
| 07/2022-03/2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft |
| 07/2022 | Ph.D. degree at University Leipzig |
| 09/2017-07/2022 | Doctoral researcher at MPI EVA |
| 08/2016 | M.Sc. Friedrich-Schiller University Jena |
| 09/2013 | B.Sc. Friedrich-Schiller University Jena |
Publications
Niederschuh, S. J., van Beesel, J., & Schmidt, M. (2022). The role of sensory feedback from carpal sinus hairs in locomotor kinematics of rats (Rattus norvegicus, Rodentia) during walking on narrow substrates. Zoology, 155: 126055. |
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van Beesel, J., Hutchinson, J. R., Hublin, J.-J., & Melillo, S. M. (2022). Comparison of the arm‐lowering performance between Gorilla and Homo through musculoskeletal modeling. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(3), 399-416. |
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Demuth, O. E., Wiseman, A. L. A., van Beesel, J., Mallison, H., & Hutchinson, J. R. (2022). Three-dimensional polygonal muscle modelling and line of action estimation in living and extinct taxa. Scientific Reports, 12: 3358. |
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van Beesel, J. (2022). Biomechanical consequences of variation in shoulder morphology in the Hominoidea. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |
Open Accessvan Beesel, J., Hutchinson, J. R., Hublin, J.-J., & Melillo, S. M. (2021). Exploring the functional morphology of the Gorilla shoulder through musculoskeletal modelling. Journal of Anatomy, 239(1), 207-227. |