Guillermo J Amador
Assistant professor in the Experimental Zoology Group
Guillermo J Amador is an assistant professor in the Experimental Zoology group at Wageningen University and Research. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up in the USA. In 2015, he obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Through his dissertation, titled How Insects Stay Clean, he investigated the methods by which plants and animals, especially insects, maintain a stable external state, either by preventing airborne particle deposition or effectively removing accumulated particles. His thesis was awarded Best PhD Thesis award by the Sigma Xi organization. After his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physical Intelligence group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, where he investigated the controlled transfer of complex media through interactions across interfaces. Then, he moved to the Netherlands where he worked as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Leading Fellow in the departments of Process & Energy and Bionanoscience at TU Delft studying how cells interact with their fluid environments. Through his research, he hopes to address many questions concerning the physical role of biological form, as well as motivate bio-inspired solutions for interfacing with complex environments.
Lab members
- Post-doctoral Researcher
Severin te Lindert
PhD candidateAlexander
PhD candidateBaowen
PhD candidate
Alumni
Chermaine Streppel
BScEarthworm and cuttlefish sucker histologyRutger Leenders
BScStick insect adhesionJonatan den Haan
BScCuttlefish tissue viscoelasticityTabo Geelen
BScCuttlefish sucker adhesionGerline van Beusekom
BScCuttlefish sucker adhesionBas Velthuizen
BScCuttlefish sucker adhesionJelle Steens
BScCuttlefish sucker adhesionSusan van den Bos
BScCuttlefish sucker adhesionDiana Hofman
BScCuttlefish sucker adhesionLuc van den Boogart
MScMosquito landing and adhesionJoren Woeltjes
MScCuttlefish sucker morphology and adhesion currently a PhD at Utrecht University, NLRobin Formesyn
BScCuttlefish mucus micro-rheologyTijmen van der Gaast
BScCuttlefish sucker morphologyCalvin Keuter
BScCuttlefish tentacle morphologyDoris Verlinden
BScCuttlefish sucker morphology and adhesionKang Li
MScEarthworm locomotionYoerick Lankhof
MScCuttlefish sucker morphology and adhesionEmil Bathow
internCuttlefish sucker adhesionDaan van den Bor
internCuttlefish tissue viscoelasticityLara-Marie Jess
internComputational modeling of suction cupsBenjamin Karman
internStick insect adhesionLuuk van Maurik
internCuttlefish sucker morphology