Amandine Eriksen

Amandine Eriksen serves as Assistant Professor and Director of Biology Graduate Studies in the Department of Biology at the University of Indianapolis. Her academic career includes a postdoctoral position at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix where she specialized in human gross anatomy instruction and cross-species skeletal asymmetry research.

Her research centers on biological anthropology with emphases on skeletal asymmetry patterns in humans and gorillas, utilizing geometric morphometrics to analyze developmental impacts of early life stress and biomechanical forces on primate skeletons. This work bridges evolutionary biology and developmental physiology through quantitative morphological analysis.

As Director of Biology Graduate Studies, she oversees advanced academic programming while maintaining active research on stress-induced skeletal variations. Her methodological expertise in geometric morphometrics supports investigations into evolutionary adaptations and developmental plasticity within primate lineages.