Jose Iriarte-Diaz
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Chicago
August 2008 to the present
Education
2002 – 2008 PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
2000 – 2003 MSc Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Chile
1995 – 1998 Licenciatura en Ciencias mención Biología, Universidad de Chile (equivalent to B.Sc.)
Peer-reviewed publications
Iriarte-Diaz, J. and Swartz, S. M. (2008) Kinematics of the slow turning maneuvering in the fruit bat Cynopterus brachyotis. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3478-3489.
Riskin, D. K., Willis, D. J., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Hedrick, T. L., Kostandov, M., Chian, J., Laidlow, D. H., Breuer, K. S. and Swartz, S. M. (2008) Quantifying the complexity of bat wing kinematics. Journal of Theoretical Biology 254: 604-615.
Iriarte-Diaz, J., Bozinovic, F. & Vasquez, R. A. (2006). What explains the trot-gallop transition in small mammals? Journal of Experimental Biology 209 (20): 4061-4066.
Tian, X ., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Middleton, K., Galvao, R., Israeli, E., Roemer, A., Sullivan, A., Song, A., Swartz, S. M. & Breuer, K. (2006) Direct measurements of the kinematics and dynamics of bat flight. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 1: S10-S18.
Canals, M., Atala, C., Grossi, B. & Iriarte-Diaz, J. (2005). Relative size of hearts and lungs of small bats. Acta Chiropterologica 7 (1): 65-72.
Canals, M., Grossi, B., Iriarte-Diaz, J. & Veloso, C. (2005). Biomechanical and ecological relationships of wing morphology of eight Chilean bats. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 78 (2): 215-227.
Saavedra, B., Quiroz, D., Iriarte, J. (2004). Past and present: small mammals of Isla Mocha (Chile). Mammalian Biology 68 (6): 365-371.
Iriarte-Diaz, J. (2002). Diferential scaling of locomotor performance in small and large terrestrial mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology 205 (18): 2897-2908.
Iriarte-Diaz, J., Novoa, F. F. & Canals, M.. (2002). Comparative wing morphology of two species of Chilean bats Tadarida brasieliensis and Myotis chiloensis, and their biomechanic consequences. Acta Theriologica 47 (2): 193-200.
Bacigalupe, L. D., Iriarte-Diaz, J. & Bozinovic, F. (2002) Functional morphology and geographic variation in the digging apparatus of cururos (Spalacopus cyanus, octodontidae). Journal of Mammalogy 83 (1): 145-152.
Canals, M., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Olivares, R. & Novoa, F. F. (2001) Comparación de la morfología alar de los quirópteros Tadarida brasiliensis (Chiroptera: Molossidae) y Myotis chiloensis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), representantes de dos diferentes patrones de vuelo. Revista Chilena Historia Natural 74 (3): 699-704.
Published abstracts
Riskin, D. K., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Middleton, K. Breuer, K. S. & Swartz, S. M. (2008) Effects of body size on the wing kinematics of bats. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 150: S78.
Swartz, S. M., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Riskin, D., Song, A., Tian, X., Willis, D. J. & Breuer, K. (2007) Wing structure and the aerodynamic basis of flight in bats. 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV.
Iriarte-Diaz, J. (2006) The effect of artificial loads on the straight flight performance of fruit bats. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46 (suppl. 1): E67.
Swartz, S.M., Galvao, R., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Israeli, E., Middleton, K., Roemer, R., Tian, X. & Breuer, K. (2005) Unique characteristics of aerodynamics of bat flight evidence from direct visualization of patterns of airflow in the wakes of naturally flying bats. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45 (6): 1080.
Iriarte-Diaz, J. & Lee, M. –M. (2004) Kinematics of slow turning maneuvering in bats. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44 (6): 575.
Swartz, S.M., Middleton, K.M., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Lee, M., Wofford, J.M., Breuer, K.S. & Ritter, D.A. (2004) Can bats actively control the mechanical properties of the wing membrane?. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44 (6): 751.
Iriarte-Díaz, J., Vásquez, R. A. & Bozinovic, F. (2003) Trot-gallop transition in a small mammal. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43 (6): 1030.
Sartori, D, Iriarte, J., Cecchi, C., Veloso, C. & Vásquez, R. A. (2000) Reconocimiento de parentesco en el roedor caviomorfo Octodon degus. Biological Research 33: R53.
Iriarte-Díaz, J. & Canals, M. (2000) Predictores morfológicos del desempeño locomotor en mamíferos terrestres. Biological Research 33: R75.
Iriarte, J., Atala, C., Novoa, F. F. & Canals, M. (1999) Morfometría comparada de dos especies de murciélagos chilenos y su correlación con la conducta de vuelo. Biological Research 32: R151.
Iriarte, J., Moreno, K., Rubilar, D. & Vargas, A. (1999) A titanosaurid from quebraba La Higuera (late cretaceous), III Region, Chile. Ameghiniana 36: 102.
Iriarte, J. (1998) Escalamiento diferencial de la velocidad máxima estandarizada en mamíferos terrestres. Noticiero de Biología 6: 119.
Invited seminars
University of Chicago. March 2008.
University of Massachusettss, Amherst. March 2008.
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile. March 2006.
Honors and awards
2007 John G. Peterson Fellow, Brown University
2007 Dean's Teaching Excellence Award, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2001 Partial Financing of thesis grant by Departmento de Postgrado y Postítulo of Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Académicos, Universidad de Chile.
1998 Academic Excellence Scholarship, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile.
Professional memberships
2001 – present Sociedad de Ecología de Chile (SOCECOL)
2003 – present Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
Service to the profession
Reviewer for
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
