Research Expertise and Interest

electrical and capillary forces on small animals, evolutionary biology, bio-inspired robotics

Research Description

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.