Anne-Claire Fabre is a Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellow working at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany. She is an evolutionary biologist and focusing on the origin and evolution of morphological and functional diversity of organisms. A major goal of her research is to disentagle the impact of the different internal (e.g., development) and external (e.g. environment, climare) factors shaping the past and current phenotypic diversity of organisms and how it relates  to function.

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To understand the multiple factors shaping the current diversity of form and function in organisms, she uses cross-disciplinary approaches, combining specimen-based work with in vivo studies (in zoos and in the field) and quantitative analyses of the musculoskeletal system (bone and muscles) in the context of function (feeding and locomotion), behavior, and life history traits in a comparative phylogenetic framework. She addresses questions such as what factors shape the diversity in form and function? How does development foster morphofunctional diversification? How does variation in form translate into variation in function and behaviour? How can in vivo data on extant species shed light on the paleoecology of extinct species? She integrates tools including geometric morphometrics and multivariate and phylogenetic comparative methods to quantitatively link morphology, behavior, and performance in a phylogenetic context. 

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Her research is at the forefront of the use 3D geometric morphometrics in the fields of functional morphology and paleontology and has already generated an important output in terms of publications (> 50 indexed papers, two book chapters, and one book).

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She has been awarded external grants to fund fieldwork and students in addition to obtaining competitive funding for her own salary from French and EU funding agencies. This has enabled her to work in five different countries (France, UK, USA, Switzerland and Germany)

allowing her to develop an extensive international network.