ECR Spotlight – Udit Halder and Katya Gribkova

Abstract

ABSTRACT ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Udit Halder and Ekaterina (Katya) Gribkova are authors on ‘ Passive elasticity properties of Octopus rubescens arms’, published in JEB. Udit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, investigating complex dynamical systems in biology and their applications to engineering. Ekaterina (Katya) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Rhanor Gillette at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, investigating systems neuroethology of marine invertebrates, computational models of behavior, memory and neural plasticity, and biologically inspired artificial intelligence.