Charles Oxnard
Resume
Since retirement in 1987 Charles is Emeritus Professor (1997-death), Senior Honorary Research Fellow in Anatomy and Human Biology, and Adjunct Professor in Forensic Science. He has held a Leverhulme Professorship at UC, London (2001-2004) and is currently: Honorary Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the University of Liverpool, Honorary Professor of Anatomy at Hull/York Medical School, and Honorary Professor of Bioengineering at U. Hull. He has taught anatomy, anthropology and evolutionary biology to science students as well as medical students on three continents. His researches range from anatomical dissection, through mathematical and engineering modelling of anatomical structures, to Fast Fourier Transforms and Fast Lagrangian Analyses as applied to the architecture and biomechanics of bone. His more recent studies have involved mathematical approaches to species evolution, individual lineages, brain evolution, and the dwarfed Flores fossils.
He holds M.B, ChB, PhD, and DSc degrees from the University of Birmingham, UK, and undertook his first investigations with Professor Lord Zuckerman. He arrived in Australia in 1987 via 12 years each at the Universities of Birmingham, Chicago and Southern California.