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Homepage of Peter Aerts
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Prof. Dr. Peter Aerts Laboratory
for Functional Morphology Tel. +32-(0)3-820.22.69 |
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Peter is Professor in Zoology at the University of Antwerp (BE) and currently also chair of the Department of Biology. He studied biology (’76-’80) at the University of Ghent (BE) and continued to work in the same Institution in the context of his Ph.D. Initially he started with investigations on the larval development of fishes , but his main interest was readily drawn towards the functional aspects of the musculo -skeletal system of the adult fish. This finally resulted in a thesis dealing with the mechanics and hydrodynamics of aquatic feeding (‘87). At that time ('86) he also started to work together with the department of Movement and Sport Science of the University of Ghent, where he still has a visiting professorship. After a short post- doctoral period in Ghent he moved in ’89 to the Functional Morphology lab in Antwerp ( FunMorph -UA) to become a Research Associate and later Research Director of the FWO-Flanders (Research Fund-Flanders). In 2002 he became head of the FunMorph -lab. Much of the research carried out under his supervision still concerns musculo -skeletal function during feeding and primarily locomotion of vertebrates (fishes, frogs, salamanders, turtles, lizards, apes and humans). Next to scientific management and research, he also teaches courses on ‘General Zoology’, ‘Form & Function’, ‘Embryology’, ‘Functional Morphology of Vertebrates’, ‘Biomechanics’ and ‘Scaling’. |
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