Research Bio
Victor Ortega Jiménez is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. His research focuses on the effect produced by perturbed flows, static electricity, and capillary forces on organismal dynamics. He studies animals moving in such complex flows as rain, waterfalls, turbulent flows, thermal convection, and fluid interfaces. I am also interested in the effects produced by electrical and capillary forces on small animals. This multidisciplinary area combines physiology, fluid dynamics, mathematics, and engineering, and has deep biological implications on ecological processes, and evolutionary biology. Moreover, its applications in technology include the design of bio-inspired robots with the capacity to move over unpredictable and multicomponent environments.
Research Expertise and Interest
electrical and capillary forces on small animals, evolutionary biology, bio-inspired robotics
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Flamingos Create Water Tornados To Trap Their Prey
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“The birds looked beautiful, but the big question for me was, ‘What’s happening with the hydrodynamic mechanisms involved in flamingos’ filter feeding?’” said Victor Ortega-Jiménez, an assistant professor of integrative biology.