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Email: tpo@ucsd.edu
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Valentina Di Santo at the University of California, San Diego, in the Marine Research Division of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Valentina Di Santo at the University of California, San Diego, in the Marine Research Division of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
I received my PhD from the Laboratory of Matthew McHenry at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
I received my PhD from the Laboratory of Matthew McHenry at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
I study how animals coordinate movement in aquatic terrestrial environments. My current research focuses on walking fish, using high-speed kinematic analysis and respiratory to investigate the biomechanics and physiology of locomotion under various developmental and experimental conditions.
I completed my PhD at the University of California, Irvine, where I investigated how sea stars control the coordinated movement of hundreds of tube feet using a rudimentary nervous system. This work combined animal experiments, robotics, and mathematical modeling to explore locomotion in systems that blend collective and centralized control, offering insight into how decentralized neural architectures can support locomotion in diverse terrains. In both fish and echinoderms, I'm broadly interested in how different control strategies and body plans shape locomotor performance. In the long term, I aim to build an interdisciplinary research lab that bridges biology and robotics to uncover the principles that govern movement in complex and transitional environments.
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