Lara Ferry

Dr. Lara Ferry is the Interim Vice President of Research for the Knowledge Enterprise (formerly the Associate Vice President of Research), 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 still holds a faculty 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.

Ferry is broadly trained as a comparative physiologist and ecophysiologist, and her research has focused largely on aquatic and marine organisms.  This research is centered on questions relating to the evolution of jaws and their function in the aquatic realm, as well as the performance of skeletal materials such as cartilage.