RESEARCH
Our research uses integrative approaches to address the physical basis of behavior in an evolutionary comparative context, investigating the ways in which organisms interact with their environment and drive evolutionary selection for morphology and function. By combining the research expertise we have in ecology, evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, hydrodynamics, and biologically-inspired robotics, we are able to approach broad-impact evolutionary questions from an experimental perspective and directly test the relationship between an organism and its environment, explore the evolution of novel forms, and investigate the functional mechanics of ecological speciation.
Some of the research areas we are interested in include:
