Sun-Pill is a robotic hardware engineer interested in bio-inspired and origami-inspired robotic systems across scales, from millimeter-scale insect-inspired robots to meter-scale deployable structures.
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Anusuya is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the physics of complex biological and soft-matter systems. She combines experiments with data-driven approaches, including machine learning, to study transport, deposition, and emergent behavior in droplet-based systems.
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Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-PropellerUnderwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control. Download the paper.
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Analyzing Amazonian jumping spider limb coordination with a novel graph-wavelet method, we found that across genera, take-off involves a stereotyped two-stage "swing-and-fling" sequence. Download the paper.
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We outline six actionable practices to help scientists effectively reach and engage broad audiences, with a focus on leveraging modern media and emerging dissemination channels. Download the paper.
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Combining blackworm experiments with active-polymer simulations, we found that self-propelled filaments escape confined channels fastest. Download the paper.
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Using Mary Somerville's 1834 On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences as a case, I argue that synthesis is important in the progress of physical sciences. Download the paper.
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We reviewed how termites sense, move through, and build their granular environment, and argue that these three processes form a single feedback loop in which the colony as an active matter system continually rewrites the substrate that governs its own future behavior. Download the paper.
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We built an unsupervised accelerometer pipeline and found sprint sled dogs switch between several distinct gallop stride states. Download the paper.
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Tejas is a theoretical soft matter physicist who enjoy thinking about any kind of system that breaks, maintains, or creates generalized symmetries.
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Tianjun is interested in improving the stability and efficiency of insect-scale robots by learning from how insects leverage their body structures to interact with the environment across different interfaces.
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Congrats to former Bhamla Lab postdoc Dr. Ishant Tiwari for starting as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Colorado College!
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The Bhamla Lab has relocated to the Biofrontiers Institute at CU Boulder!
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Read the paper here and see the videos in APS Gallery of Fluid Motion.
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Dongjin joined the Bhamla Lab as a postdoctoral fellow focusing on compact, high-power, and compliant actuators.
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Lab celebration and farewell dinner as we move our lab to CU Boulder!
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Bridging Science Across Species: A Biomechanics Outreach Event at the Zoo
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