Nathan M. Young, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Director of the Oral & Craniofacial Sciences Master of Science Program at the UCSF School of Dentistry. His research focuses on phenomic variation in evolution, health, and disease, with an emphasis on craniofacial and postcranial skeletal development, 3D medical imaging, geometric morphometrics, and human and ape evolution. Young has secured multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) grants as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator, exploring topics such as brain-face interactions, cleft lip development, and shoulder morphology in osteoarthritis. With an h-index of 38 and over 5,500 citations, he has published extensively in high-impact journals, including Nature Communications, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Development. His work integrates evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) with clinical applications, advancing predictive modeling of craniofacial anomalies and skeletal variation. Young is a dedicated educator, mentoring numerous undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers, and has received awards for teaching and research excellence, including the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Chairman’s Award and the Dean’s Publication and Mentorship Prize from the University of Calgary.