Dr William Parr is a senior research associate in the Surgical and Orthopaedic Research Laboratories (SORL), UNSW, Sydney. He studied for his PhD in Computation Anatomy at University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum (London). He is also the co-founder of 3DMorphic, Sydney.

He has supervised Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Anthropology, Paleontology, students from UNSW and University of Sydney.

His area of research interest include:

1. Computational Anatomy
2. Geometric Morphometrics
3. Imaging (including 3D imaging e.g. surface scanning and medical imaging: CT; MRI)
4. Biomechanics, Computational Biomechanics and Finite Element Analysis
5. Evolutionary and Functional anatomy
6. Scaling and allometry
7. Spine
8. Ankles
9. 3-Dimensional Printing
10. Orthopaedic and spinal implants