Professional Appointments
(2022-ongoing) Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College City University of New York
(2022-ongoing) Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin
(2021- 2022) Postdoctoral Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Education
2021 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin; Biological Anthropology; Thesis Title: Living at extremes: the effects of latitudinal, environmental, and elevational extremes on the anatomy and diversity of euarchontoglirans
2017 M.A. University of Texas at Austin; Biological Anthropology; Thesis Title: The internal nasal morphology of Rooneyia viejaensis and euarchontans: using μCT scan data to understand and predict patterns of nasal fossa evolution in primates; Advisor: E. Chris Kirk
2015 B.S.University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Highest Honors in Anthropology; Thesis Title: Sacrum and Sacroiliac joint changes relative to primate locomotion; Advisor: L. MacLatchy
Publications
2023. Lundeen IK, Kirk, EC. Euarchontans from Fantasia, an upload middle Eocene locality at the western margin of the Bighorn Basin. Journal of Human Evolution. 176, 103310.
2022. Lundeen IK, Kay RF. Unique nasal turbinate morphology reveals Homunculus patagonicus functionally converged on modern platyrrhine olfactory sensitivity. The Journal of Human Evolution. 167, 103184.
2022. Melin AD, Veilleux CC, Janiak MC, Hiramatsu C, Sánchez-Solano KG, Lundeen I K, Webb SE, Williamson RE, Mah MA, Murillo-Chacon E, Schaffner CM, Hernández-Salazar L, Aureli F, Kawamura S. Anatomy and dietary specialization influence sensory behaviour among sympatric primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289, 20220847.
2020. Kirk EC, Lundeen IK. New observations of the nasal fossa and interorbital region of Shoshonius cooperi based on micro-computerized tomography. The Journal of Human Evolution. 141, 102748.
2020. Lundeen IK. Making scents of olfactory anatomy in lorises and pottos. In: (Eds.) Nekaris, A-I. K., Burrows, A. M., Behaviour, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Lorises and Pottos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2019. Lundeen IK, Kirk EC. Internal nasal morphology of Rooneyia viejaensis and extant Euarchonta: using µCT scan data to understand and infer patterns of nasal fossa evolution in primates. The Journal of Human Evolution. 132, 137-173.
External Grants and Fellowships
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Collections Study Award (2019)
Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2019)
R.J. Stanton & J.R. Dodd Student Research Award, Paleontological Society (2019)
American Society of Mammalogists, Grant-in-Aid of Research (2019)
Texas Academy of Science Research Award (2019)
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant, American Museum of Natural History (2017)
Evolving Earth Foundation Student Research Grant (2017)
Stephen Jay Gould Award, Paleontological Society (2017)
Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2017)
Internal Grants and Fellowships
University of Texas, Graduate School Continuing Fellowship (2020-21)
University of Texas, Graduate School Summer Fellowship (2019)
Scientist in Residence Fellowship, UT Austin (2018-19)
University of Texas Graduate Recruitment Fellowship (2015-16)
Teaching Experience
Hunter College CUNY
Human Anatomy - Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
The Human Species - Spring 2023
Primate Evolution - Spring 2023
Introduction to Human Evolution - Fall 2022, Fall 2023
University of Texas at Austin
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Virtual) - Summer 2020
Age of Dinosaurs (Hybrid) - Jackson School of Geosciences - Spring 2020
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Web-based) - Anthropology - Fall 2019
Primate Anatomy - Anthropology - Fall 2017, 2018
Introduction to Biological Anthropology - Anthropology - Fall 2016-2019
Pre-College Student
Scientist in Residence Fellowship, Anderson High School, Austin, TX - 2018-2019
Human Anatomy - UT Austin Pre-College Program - Summer 2016
Sports Anatomy - UT Austin Pre-College Program - Summer 2016, 2017
Hominid Origins - University of Michigan Math and Sciences Scholars Program - Summer 2015
Awards/Honors
2023 - Hunter College Travel Award
2021 - American Association of Physical Anthropologists Pollitzer Student Travel Award
2020 - Texas Academy of Science Graduate Student Oral Paper Competition, 1st place
2019 - American Association of Physical Anthropology, Anatomy in Anthropology Prize
2018 - University of Texas, Department of Anthropology Summer Research Award
2018 - University of Texas, Graduate Student Association Professional Development Award
2017 - Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists, Best Graduate Poster
2017 - American Association of Physical Anthropologists Pollitzer Student Travel Award
2016 - University of Texas, Department of Anthropology Professional Development Award
2016 - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Jackson Student Travel Award
2015- Virginia L. Voss Memorial Award for excellence in writing
2015 - American Association of Physical Anthropologists Committee on Diversity Undergraduate Research Travel Award
2015 - University of Michigan Anthropology Undergraduate Research Award
2014 - University of Michigan Anthropology Honors Research Fellowship
Academic Conference Presentations
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Invited Lectures
2020
“North American Primate Evolution” Department of Anthropology, Boston University
2019
“Elevational and latitudinal sampling biases in the North American Eocene fossil record”, Department of Paleontology, University of Michigan
2012
“Abiotic factors as predictors of cathemeral activity in red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer)”, University of Antatanarivo, Madagascar
(2022-ongoing) Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College City University of New York
(2022-ongoing) Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin
(2021- 2022) Postdoctoral Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Education
2021 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin; Biological Anthropology; Thesis Title: Living at extremes: the effects of latitudinal, environmental, and elevational extremes on the anatomy and diversity of euarchontoglirans
2017 M.A. University of Texas at Austin; Biological Anthropology; Thesis Title: The internal nasal morphology of Rooneyia viejaensis and euarchontans: using μCT scan data to understand and predict patterns of nasal fossa evolution in primates; Advisor: E. Chris Kirk
2015 B.S.University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Highest Honors in Anthropology; Thesis Title: Sacrum and Sacroiliac joint changes relative to primate locomotion; Advisor: L. MacLatchy
Publications
2023. Lundeen IK, Kirk, EC. Euarchontans from Fantasia, an upload middle Eocene locality at the western margin of the Bighorn Basin. Journal of Human Evolution. 176, 103310.
2022. Lundeen IK, Kay RF. Unique nasal turbinate morphology reveals Homunculus patagonicus functionally converged on modern platyrrhine olfactory sensitivity. The Journal of Human Evolution. 167, 103184.
2022. Melin AD, Veilleux CC, Janiak MC, Hiramatsu C, Sánchez-Solano KG, Lundeen I K, Webb SE, Williamson RE, Mah MA, Murillo-Chacon E, Schaffner CM, Hernández-Salazar L, Aureli F, Kawamura S. Anatomy and dietary specialization influence sensory behaviour among sympatric primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289, 20220847.
2020. Kirk EC, Lundeen IK. New observations of the nasal fossa and interorbital region of Shoshonius cooperi based on micro-computerized tomography. The Journal of Human Evolution. 141, 102748.
2020. Lundeen IK. Making scents of olfactory anatomy in lorises and pottos. In: (Eds.) Nekaris, A-I. K., Burrows, A. M., Behaviour, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Lorises and Pottos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2019. Lundeen IK, Kirk EC. Internal nasal morphology of Rooneyia viejaensis and extant Euarchonta: using µCT scan data to understand and infer patterns of nasal fossa evolution in primates. The Journal of Human Evolution. 132, 137-173.
External Grants and Fellowships
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Collections Study Award (2019)
Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2019)
R.J. Stanton & J.R. Dodd Student Research Award, Paleontological Society (2019)
American Society of Mammalogists, Grant-in-Aid of Research (2019)
Texas Academy of Science Research Award (2019)
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant, American Museum of Natural History (2017)
Evolving Earth Foundation Student Research Grant (2017)
Stephen Jay Gould Award, Paleontological Society (2017)
Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2017)
Internal Grants and Fellowships
University of Texas, Graduate School Continuing Fellowship (2020-21)
University of Texas, Graduate School Summer Fellowship (2019)
Scientist in Residence Fellowship, UT Austin (2018-19)
University of Texas Graduate Recruitment Fellowship (2015-16)
Teaching Experience
Hunter College CUNY
Human Anatomy - Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
The Human Species - Spring 2023
Primate Evolution - Spring 2023
Introduction to Human Evolution - Fall 2022, Fall 2023
University of Texas at Austin
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Virtual) - Summer 2020
Age of Dinosaurs (Hybrid) - Jackson School of Geosciences - Spring 2020
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Web-based) - Anthropology - Fall 2019
Primate Anatomy - Anthropology - Fall 2017, 2018
Introduction to Biological Anthropology - Anthropology - Fall 2016-2019
Pre-College Student
Scientist in Residence Fellowship, Anderson High School, Austin, TX - 2018-2019
Human Anatomy - UT Austin Pre-College Program - Summer 2016
Sports Anatomy - UT Austin Pre-College Program - Summer 2016, 2017
Hominid Origins - University of Michigan Math and Sciences Scholars Program - Summer 2015
Awards/Honors
2023 - Hunter College Travel Award
2021 - American Association of Physical Anthropologists Pollitzer Student Travel Award
2020 - Texas Academy of Science Graduate Student Oral Paper Competition, 1st place
2019 - American Association of Physical Anthropology, Anatomy in Anthropology Prize
2018 - University of Texas, Department of Anthropology Summer Research Award
2018 - University of Texas, Graduate Student Association Professional Development Award
2017 - Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists, Best Graduate Poster
2017 - American Association of Physical Anthropologists Pollitzer Student Travel Award
2016 - University of Texas, Department of Anthropology Professional Development Award
2016 - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Jackson Student Travel Award
2015- Virginia L. Voss Memorial Award for excellence in writing
2015 - American Association of Physical Anthropologists Committee on Diversity Undergraduate Research Travel Award
2015 - University of Michigan Anthropology Undergraduate Research Award
2014 - University of Michigan Anthropology Honors Research Fellowship
Academic Conference Presentations
2023
- Lundeen IK. Addition, loss, and expansion of olfactory turbinals among extinct and extant primatomorphans. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH.
- Lundeen IK, Melstrom, KM. Building student engagement through collaborative field anatomical and taxonomic guides. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH.
- Lundeen IK, Melstrom, KM. Increasing student engagement in paleontology by collaboratively building field and lab anatomical identification guides. Anatomy Connected, American Association for Anatomy Meeting, Washington, DC.
2022
- Lundeen IK. Adapiform internal nasal anatomy and implications for crown Primates. American Association of Biological Anthropologists 91st Annual Meeting, In-person & Virtual.
- Lundeen IK, Bertrand OC. Anatomical variation in respiratory and olfactory turbinates in extant and fossil sciuroids. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON.
2021
- Lundeen IK, Kemp AD. Evolutionary patterns of relative turbinate size across Euarchontoglires. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 90th Annual Meeting, Virtual.
2020
- Lundeen IK. Describing the well-preserved turbinals of the adapiform primate, Leptadapis leenhardti. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th Annual Meeting, Virtual.
- Anemone RL, Ahrens HE, Crowell JW, Lundeen IK, Morse PE, Yokley TR. A new tillodont skull with exceptional preservation from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th Annual Meeting, Virtual
- Lundeen IK. The role of topography and elevation in shaping middle Eocene mammalian diversity in North America, Texas Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Nacogdoches, TX.
- Winner of Graduate Student Presentation Prize
- Lundeen IK. Ecogeographic variation and phylogenetic signature in rodent respiratory turbinates. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, TX.
2019
- Lundeen IK, Kay RF. Olfactory system anatomy in Homunculus and the ecological importance of olfactory cues among stem platyrrhines. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH.
- Winner of Anatomy in Anthropology Prize.
2018
- Lundeen IK. Eocene mammalian fauna of Carter Mountain. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, San Marcos, TX
- Kirk EC, Lundeen IK, Egberts S. Early Bird: A new Middle Eocene vertebrate fossil locality from the Canoe Formation of Southwest Texas. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting, San Marcos, TX
- Lundeen IK. Contextualizing the mammalian fauna of the Fantasia locality on Carter Mountain in Wyoming. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 78th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM
- Kirk EC, Lundeen IK, Egberts S. Early Bird: A new Middle Eocene vertebrate fossil locality from the Canoe Formation of Southwest Texas. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 78th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM
- Lundeen IK. Patterns of relative olfactory turbinal surface area through Euarchonta. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
- Lundeen IK. Sampling biases in the fossil record: the utility of basin-margin sites in understanding speciation patterns. New Directions in Anthropology, Austin, TX.
2017
- Lundeen IK. Nasal anatomy of Rooneyia viejaensis: implications for crown primate olfactory systems. San Antonio, TX.
- Winner of Best Graduate Poster.
- Lundeen IK, Kirk EC. Internal nasal morphology of Rooneyia viejaensis: implications for crown primate olfactory system anatomy. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 86th Annual Meeting.
2016
- Lundeen IK, Kirk EC. Reduction in the Olfactory System in Primates: New Insights from the Nasal Fossa of the Duchesnean Primate Rooneyia viejaensis. Invited Symposium: Advances in Middle Eocene Paleoecology: Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics in a Post-Greenhouse World. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 76th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City
- Kirk EC, Atwater A, Campisano C, Egberts S, Lundeen IK. A New Primate partial cranial specimen from the late Middle Eocene of the Tornillo Basin, Texas. Invited Symposium: Advances in Middle Eocene Paleoecology: Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics in a Post-Greenhouse World. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 76th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City
- Kirk EC, Atwater AL, Campisano CJ, Egberts S, Lundeen IK. An Eocene primate frontal from the Devil’s Graveyard Formation, Texas. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 85th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
2015
- Lundeen IK, MacLatchy, L. Scaling relationships among sacral and pelvic articular surfaces in hominoid primates. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 84th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
- Lundeen IK. Sacral joint morphology in hominoid primates. University of Michigan Research Symposium.
Invited Lectures
2020
“North American Primate Evolution” Department of Anthropology, Boston University
2019
“Elevational and latitudinal sampling biases in the North American Eocene fossil record”, Department of Paleontology, University of Michigan
2012
“Abiotic factors as predictors of cathemeral activity in red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer)”, University of Antatanarivo, Madagascar
Manuscript Reviewer Service
Vertebrate Zoology
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Outreach
Invited Talks/Panels/Social Media Takeovers
2021 - Invited Social Media Takeover, Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY
2020 - Invited Speaker, Meeteetse Museums, Meeteetse, WY
2020 - Scientist, Skype A Scientist
2019 - Invited speaker, 29th Annual Fossil Fest, Round Rock, TX
2019 - Invited panelist, Women of Excellence at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
2019 - Scientist, Letters to a Pre-Scientist
2018-2019 - Scientist in Residence, Anderson High School, Austin, TX
2018 - Invited speaker, Paleontological Society of Austin, Austin, TX
2017 - Science Fair judge, Brykerwoods Elementary School, Austin, TX
2016-2018 - Outreach volunteer, Darwin Day, Austin, TX
2016-2019 - Outreach volunteer, UT Austin “Hot Science, Cool Talks”
2015-2017 - Outreach volunteer, Earth Science Career Day, University of Texas
Vertebrate Zoology
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Outreach
Invited Talks/Panels/Social Media Takeovers
2021 - Invited Social Media Takeover, Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY
2020 - Invited Speaker, Meeteetse Museums, Meeteetse, WY
2020 - Scientist, Skype A Scientist
2019 - Invited speaker, 29th Annual Fossil Fest, Round Rock, TX
2019 - Invited panelist, Women of Excellence at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
2019 - Scientist, Letters to a Pre-Scientist
2018-2019 - Scientist in Residence, Anderson High School, Austin, TX
2018 - Invited speaker, Paleontological Society of Austin, Austin, TX
2017 - Science Fair judge, Brykerwoods Elementary School, Austin, TX
2016-2018 - Outreach volunteer, Darwin Day, Austin, TX
2016-2019 - Outreach volunteer, UT Austin “Hot Science, Cool Talks”
2015-2017 - Outreach volunteer, Earth Science Career Day, University of Texas