Brooke E. Flammang, PhD

I hold an appointment as an Associate of Ichthyology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and am on the faculty in the Federated Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. I lead the Fluid Locomotion Laboratory at NJIT [Flammang | Fluid Loco Lab]. 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 the evolutionary selection of morphology and function. By combining the research expertise we have in 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, ultimately leading to the development of new technologies useful in ecological and organismal monitoring.