Prospective graduate students and postdocs:
Are you interested in joining our team?
Please contact us.
Lab Mascot: Joey
Research interests:
How to strategically counteract perturbations of dog wrestling at the local park
Lab Director: Tonia Hsieh
email:
tonia.hsieh [at] temple.edu
Tonia Hsieh is an Associate Professor of Biology at Temple University. She is interested in understanding how animals move through the complex, natural world, with a particular focus on running across granular media. She received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University, investigating how lizards walk on water and fishes walk on land. She has been a faculty member at Temple University since 2010, and is an NSF CAREER awardee.
Graduate Students
D. Catalina Mantilla
Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Biomechanics of running up
sandy slopes
Liz Tucker
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests:
Locomotor control strategies for counteracting perturbations induced by the locomotor surface
Undergraduates
If you find our research outlandishly cool… If you are motivated and insatiably curious… And if you have at least 10 hours per week to work with us, then you just might be a perfect addition to our team! Please send Dr. Hsieh! an email
Former Lab Members
Graduate students
Aja Carter (Post-doctoral Researcher at Univ. Pennsylvania, Kod*lab)
Janne Pfeiffenberger (Assistant Professor at Barry University)
Nicole Mazouchova
Michael Fath
Noah Beller
Postdoctoral researchers
Brian Chang
Swapnil Pravin
Frank Nelson (Assistant Professor of Instruction, Temple University)
Kyle Mara (Associate Professor of Biology, University of Southern Indiana)
Undergraduate researchers
Nora Parisi
Jamie Bregman
Brooke Quinn (Ph.D. student at Brown University)
Waleed Nowayti (Bioengineering)
Alex Greenwood
Winston Colburn (Bioengineering)
Larry Gardner (Mechanical engineering)
Alina Gawlinski
Kyle Hovey
Joon Jung
Dana MacFarlane
Desiree Saraceno
Emily Dabashinsky
Eric Tran
Elizabeth Szablya
Vishal Dasari (UPenn undergraduate)
Ally Kessler
Dallas Malzi
Matt Schmoyer
Yu Liang (Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
Sachin Parikh
John Kemmey
Lyndsay Taylor
Cherice Smithers
Kevin Carbonell
Chris Grassa
Tristan Hensley
Israel Salazar
Amanda Ropp
Judith Misas
High school researchers
Sarah Xi
Joe Bondi
Amber Dai
Laura Dallara
Alina Gawlinski
Kunj Shroff