Aleksa Ratarac is a PhD student in Isaac Salazar Ciudad’s group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and an alumnus of University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Biology. His research focuses on evolutionary developmental biology, phenotypic plasticity, and computational modeling of developmental processes. His current project integrates geometric morphometrics with a first-principles physics model of insect wing development, in attempt to explore the mechanical bases of morphological plasticity and developmental variation in general.