We are pleased to welcome our new Writing-Up Fellow Henry Camarillo to the KLI. Henry is a PhD candidate in Martha Muñoz’s lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. His research interests lie in understanding form-function evolution and investigating how biomechanical constraints may influence morphological evolution, especially focusing on the diversity of salamander cranial anatomy.

Henry received his M.Sc. degree from Kansas State University in 2018, where he studied performance trade-offs between swimming modes and gill ventilation in sulfide spring fishes. During his PhD dissertation, Henry received training in phylogenetic comparative methods and 3D morphological data collection from CT and diceCT scans, and hopes to integrate techniques in functional morphology, biomechanics, and phylogenetic comparative methods to better understand diversification in salamanders. 

During his fellowship at the KLI from 1 September 2025 to 26 February 2026, Henry will be working on his project titled: “Evolutionary Anatomy of Lungless Salamanders”.

Here’s wishing Henry a wonderful time at the KLI and in Austria!