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Faculty Listing

Faculty	Title, Primary Department	Research Expertise	IGERT Focus
Barry Trimmer, PI Controls (C)	Professor, Biology	Neuromechanics, soft robotic devices	C B S
David Kaplan, co-PI, Materials (M)	Department Chair and Professor, Biomedical Engineering	Biopolymer engineering related to tissue engineering	M B
Michael Levin BioComponents (B)	Professor, Biology	Director, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology	B
Robert White Structures (S)	Assoc. Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Micromachined sensors and actuators	S
Christoph Börgers	Professor, Mathematics	Mathematical neuroscience, applied dynamical systems, scientific computing	C
Luis Dorfmann	Assoc. Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering	Theory and modeling of large deformation materials	C M
Soha Hassoun	Assoc. Professor, Computer Science	Software algorithms and methodologies for multiscale complex systems	C
Marc Hodes	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering	Transport phenomena	S
Valencia Koomson Mentoring/Diversity	Assoc. Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering	Analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits and biomimetic electronic systems	C S
Gary Leisk	Research Faculty, Mechanical Engineering	Novel biomaterial systems, soft fiber-reinforced composite scaffolds	S
William Messner	Department Chair and Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Automatic control systems, robotics, microfluidics, biological systems and instrumentation	C
Matthew Panzer	Assist. Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering	Novel electrochemical devices for energy harvesting and storage	M
Robert Peattie	Research Associate Professor, Surgery	Biomechanics, fluid flow in biological vessels	C B
Jason Rife	Assist. Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Control design, sensing, navigation and robotics	C S
Chris Rogers Outreach Leader	Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Director, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO)	S
Matthias Scheutz International Leader	Assoc. Professor, Computer Science	Director, Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory	C
Igor Sokolov	Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Nano-mechanics of soft materials, nanophotonics, nano-stethoscopes, atomic force microscopy, lubrication films, self-healing materials	M
Sameer Sonkusale	Assoc. Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering	Director, Nanoscale Sensors, Integrated Circuits and Metamaterials Laboratory	S
Samuel Thomas	Assist. Professor, Chemistry	Organic chemistry of electrostatically-responsive materials, optical sensing materials, and multifunctional polymers	M
Eric Tytell	Assist. Professor, Biology (2012)	Biomechanics and neural control of swimming in fishes	C B
Qiaobing Xu	Assist. Professor, Biomedical Engineering	Micro/nanofabrication tools for tissue engineering	M
International Collaborators	Title, Institution	Research Expertise	IGERT Focus
Paolo Dario	Professor, Advanced Robotics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy	Biomimetic robots and prostheses	S C
Auke Ijspeert	Professor, Biorobotics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausaunne, Switzerland	Nonlinear systems and robot controls	C
Akio Ishiguro	Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendei, Japan	Distributed control of biorobotics	C S
Carole Perry	Professor, Nottingham Trent University, UK	Bioinorganic and materials chemistry	M B
Rolf Pfeifer	Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland	Embodiment, biorobotics, artificial evolution	C S
Jonathan Rossiter	Head of Soft Robotics Group, FARSCOPE Centre for Doctoral Training, Bristol Robotics Laboratory	Bio-mimetics, artificial intelligence, composites, sensors	C M