Jeannette Yen

Dr. Jeannette Yen is the Director of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Biologically InspiredDesign (CBID). The goals of CBID are to bring together faculty who seek to facilitate interdisciplinary research and education for innovative products and techniques based on biologically-inspired design solutions. CBID participants believe that science and technology are increasingly hitting the limits of approaches based on traditional disciplines, and Biology may serve as an untapped resource for design methodology. Experiencing the benefits of Nature as a source of innovative and inspiring principles encourages us to preserve and protect the natural world rather than simply to harvest its products. Jeannette team-teaches the interdisciplinary course in biologically inspired design [http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=PMlvUJ9_GSk]. She has been a Professor of Biology at Georgia Tech since 2001 with a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary environmental science of biological oceanography where she studies how fluid mechanical and chemical cues transported at low Re flow serve as communication channels for micro-aquatic organisms, primarily zooplankton: key link in aquatic food webs. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/science/a-sea-snail-that-moves-like-a-flying-insect.html?_r=0 She has been to all 7 continents, including Antarctica for her research and education.

March 2016