Research

Dr. Wiseman is interested in the interplay between limb mechanics, substrate interaction, and locomotor evolution. Her research combines musculoskeletal modelling, predictive simulations, and comparative analyses across humans and other primates to address questions of movement capacity, ecological adaptation, and the evolutionary drivers of bipedalism.

View Dr. Wiseman’s profile on the University of Cambridge website.

Extended Biography

Dr. Wiseman completed an M.A. (Hons) in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and an M.Sc. in Human Anatomy and Evolution at Hull York Medical School, followed by a Ph.D. at Liverpool John Moores University in 2019 on limb mechanics and fossil footprint anatomy. After positions as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Veterinary College (2019–2021), a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at University of Cambridge (2021–2024), Lecturer in Palaeoanthropology at UCL (2024–2025), and Bye-Fellow in Archaeology at Fitzwilliam College since 2021, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2025 to lead the STEPS project, investigating how substrate navigation and limb mechanics shaped the evolution of hominin locomotion.