Titles

• Distinguished Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Associate Vice President of Research, Knowledge Enterprise
• President's Professor, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Biography

Dr. Lara Ferry is the Associate Vice President of Research for the Knowledge Enterprise, and a President's Professor. In her administrative role, she is focused on research and strategic initiatives for KE and for the University. Her academic home is in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences where she holds an appointment in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences.  Ferry is also graduate faculty in the School of Life Sciences. She is a PLuS Alliance Fellow, a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, affiliated faculty with the Biodesign Institute and the Global Security Initiative, and honors faculty in Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.

Her personal research focuses on the evolution of jaws and their function in the aquatic realm, as well as the performance of biological materials.

Education

• PhD, Comparative Physiology, University of California-Irvine
• MS, Marine Science, San Francisco State University
• BS, Biology, Cal Poly State University at San Luis Obispo

Expertise

• desert fish
• functional morphology
• comparative vertebrate anatomy
• ecophysiology
• ichthyology
• species adaptation
• growth and reproduction
• Life Below Water
• Quality Education

External Links

• Website