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

RESEARCH SCIENTISTS & POSTDOCS
  • Brett Klaassen van Oorschot

    Post-doctoral Researcher
  • Severin te Lindert

    PhD candidate
  • Alexander

    PhD candidate
  • Baowen

    PhD candidate

Alumni

  • Chermaine Streppel

    BSc
    Earthworm and cuttlefish sucker histology
  • Rutger Leenders

    BSc
    Stick insect adhesion
  • Jonatan den Haan

    BSc
    Cuttlefish tissue viscoelasticity
  • Tabo Geelen

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Gerline van Beusekom

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Maartje Wermelink

    MSc
  • Bas Velthuizen

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Jelle Steens

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Susan van den Bos

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Diana Hofman

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Luc van den Boogart

    MSc
    Mosquito landing and adhesion
  • Joren Woeltjes

    MSc
    Cuttlefish sucker morphology and adhesion
    currently a PhD at Utrecht University, NL
  • Robin Formesyn

    BSc
    Cuttlefish mucus micro-rheology
  • Tijmen van der Gaast

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker morphology
  • Calvin Keuter

    BSc
    Cuttlefish tentacle morphology
  • Doris Verlinden

    BSc
    Cuttlefish sucker morphology and adhesion
  • Kang Li

    MSc
    Earthworm locomotion
  • Yoerick Lankhof

    MSc
    Cuttlefish sucker morphology and adhesion
  • Emil Bathow

    intern
    Cuttlefish sucker adhesion
  • Daan van den Bor

    intern
    Cuttlefish tissue viscoelasticity
  • Lara-Marie Jess

    intern
    Computational modeling of suction cups
  • Benjamin Karman

    intern
    Stick insect adhesion
  • Luuk van Maurik

    intern
    Cuttlefish sucker morphology