CBID Members

Initiating Members


College of Sciences



Young-Hui Chang

Young-Hui Chang
Assistant Professor
School of Applied Physiology


bio | email
Jiri Janata

Jiri Janata
Professor and Eminent Scholar
in Sensors and Instrumentation
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry


bio | email

Nils Kroger

Nils Kroger
Assistant Professor
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry


bio | email

Paul Corballis

Paul Corballis
Assistant Professor
School of Psychology


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Bruce Walker

Bruce Walker
Assistant Professor
School of Psychology


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Joshua Weitz

Joshua Weitz
Assistant Professor
School of Biology


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Julia Kubanek

Julia Kubanek
Associate Professor
School of Biology


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Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman
Assistant Professor
School of Physics


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Silas Alben

Silas Alben
Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics


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Todd Streelman

Todd Streelman
Assistant Professor
School of Biology


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College of Engineering



Rob Butera

Rob Butera
Program Chair
Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program
Associate Professor and Pre-Medical Advisor
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering


email | bio

Hang Lu

Hang Lu
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering


bio | email

Ken Sandage

Ken Sandhage
B. Mifflin Hood Professor
School of Materials Scence and Engineering
Adjunct Professor
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry


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Lena Ting

Lena Ting
Assistant Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering


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Minami Yoda

Minami Yoda
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering


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Bert Bras

Bert Bras
Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering


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Vladimir Tsukruk

Vlaimir Tsukruk
Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering


bio | email

College of Computing



Ashok Goel


Director of the Design Intelligence Laboratory in the College of Computing
Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing


email | bio

College of Architecture



Chris Jarret

Chris Jarrett
Associate Director & Associate Professor
Architecture Program


bio | email

Franca Trubiano

Franca Trubiano
Assistant Professor
Architecture Program


bio | email

Claudia Winegarden

Claudia Winegarden
Assistant Professor
Industrial Design Program


bio

College of Liberal Arts



Ali Mazalek

Ali Mazalek
Assistant Professor
School of Literature Communication and Culture


bio | email

biomimicry defined

Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People


by Steven Vogel & Kathryn K. Davis

Cats' Paws and Catapults

Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply?
In this marvelously surprising, witty book, Steven Vogel compares these two mechanical worlds, introduces the reader to his field of biomechanics, and explains how the nexus of physical law, size, and convenience of construction determine the designs of both people and nature.

Sustainability is not so much about what you "do" as it is reflective of thinking about what you do before you do it.


Ray Anderson
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CBID is an interdisciplinary center for research and development of design solutions that occur in biological processes. Founded in 2005, It is one of more than 100 interdisciplinary research units funded at Georgia Institute of Technology