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Research interests
My research explores the microstructure of living tissues and their response to changing and extreme environments; innovating methodologies for the capture, computational modelling, analysis and interpretation of data describing complex material and structural characterisation.
Biological anthropological applications of these methods include forensic identification, the regulation of hard tissue growth and development, and the study of biomechanical systems in extinct species. This includes exploring human evolution, and functional anatomy at the level of microstructur, osteoarchaeology, and the African diaspora, postcranial morphological variation within modern human populations, biomechanics of the spine in humans and other animal models,
Engineering applications include employing the ontogeny of tissue microstructure as a model of programmed transformation in 4D materials, biomimetics in engineering design, and multi-scale modelling of complex hierarchical structures and systems.
External positions
Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, The Alan Turing Institute
1 Aug 2018 → 31 Jul 2023
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Health and Wellbeing
- Cabot Institute City Futures Research
- Cabot Institute Food Security Research
- Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
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Finds Stories: Addressing mobility through People and Object Biographies
Trimmis, K., Robson Brown, K., Kalogirou, K., Drnić, I., Tzortzopoulou, L., Fernee, C. & Sreckovic Minic, B.
15/02/21 → 29/09/23
Project: Research
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Untold Stories: Challenging research behaviours for studying the past
Trimmis, K., Fernee, C., Robson Brown, K., Sgouridis, F., Lewis, J., Evershed, R. P., Sandoval, E. R. & Mahadik, Y.
21/03/22 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
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Reply to: Revisiting life history and morphological proxies for early mammaliaform metabolic rates
Newham, E., Gill, P. G., Benton, M. J., Brewer, P., Gostling, N. J., Haberthür, D., Jernvall, J., Kankanpää, T., Kallonen, A., Navarro, C., Pacureanu, A., Richards, K., Robson Brown, K., Schneider, P., Suhonen, H., Tafforeau, P., Williams, K., Zeller-Plumhoff, B. & Corfe, I. J., 23 Sep 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, p. 5564 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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3D assessment of intervertebral disc degeneration in zebrafish identifies changes to bone density that prime disc disease
Kague, E., Turci, F., Newham, E., Yang, Y., Robson Brown, K., Aglan, M. S., Otaify, G. A., Temtamy, S. A., Ruiz-Perez, V. L., Cross, S., Royall, C. P., Witten, P. E. & Hammond, C., 31 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Bone Research. 16 p., 39.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Dimorphism in dental tissues: Sex differences in archaeological individuals for multiple tooth types
Fernée, C., Zakrzewski, S. & Brown, K. R., 27 May 2021, In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175, 1, p. 106-127 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Dataset for: A robust, semi-automated approach for counting cementum increments imaged with X-ray computed tomography
Newham, E. (Contributor), Gill, P. G. (Contributor), Robson Brown, K. (Contributor), Gostling, N. (Contributor), Corfe, I. (Contributor) & Schneider, P. (Contributor), University of Southampton, 28 Sep 2021
DOI: 10.5258/soton/d1722, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/451448/
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Data from: Comparative finite-element analysis: a single computational modeling method can reliably estimate the mechanical properties of porcine and human vertebrae
Robson Brown, K. (Contributor), Tarsuslugil, S. (Contributor), Wijayathunga, V. N. (Contributor) & Wilcox, R. K. (Contributor), Dryad, 9 Apr 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.db058, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.db058
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Data from: Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals
Gill, P. G. (Contributor), Purnell, M. A. (Contributor), Crumpton, N. (Contributor), Robson Brown, K. (Contributor), Gostling, N. J. (Contributor), Stampanoni, M. (Contributor) & Rayfield, E. J. (Contributor), Dryad, 24 Jun 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.62ck3, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.62ck3
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