We welcome and encourage research proposals across all areas of evolutionary biology, including but not limited to: Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Macroevolution: phylodynamics and rate of evolution, diversification and extinction, phylogenetic comparative methods, fossil-extant-molecular integration, etc. D. in evolutionary biology, paleontology, vertebrate anatomy, functional/developmental morphology, biomechanics, paleoecology, geochemistry, or a related discipline (completed prior to the start date).