Professor Daniel Goldman's Complex Rheology And Biomechanics Lab in the School of Physics at The Georgia Institute of Technology (Phone: 4043854548)

*Prof. Goldman receives a DARPA Young Faculty Award

*Chen Li is awarded the Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award

*Nick Gravish is awarded a 2012 Georgia Tech Auxiliary Services IMPACT Scholarship

*Prof. Goldman is awarded an NSF CAREER grant from the Physics of Living Systems division

*Prof. Goldman receives a GTFire award to create a "Micro-Labs" course in Nonlinear Science/Complex Systems

.
Our research addresses problems in nonequilibrium systems that involve interaction of physical and biological matter with complex materials (like granular media) that can flow when stressed. For example, how do organisms like lizards, crabs, and cockroaches generate appropriate musculoskeletal dynamics to scurry rapidly over substrates like sand, bark, leaves, and grass. The study of novel biological and physical interactions with complex media can also lead to the discovery of principles that govern the physics of the media. We integrate laboratory and field studies of organism biomechanics with systematic laboratory studies of physics of the substrates, create models of the substrates, and create mathematical and physical (robot) models of the organisms.