Mimi A.R. Koehl

Mimi A.R. Koehl is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she performs laboratory and field studies of the biofluid dynamics and biomechanics of the way in which organisms interact with each other and their natural environments. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Koehl has received various awards, including the John Martin Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Borelli Award from the American Society of Biomechanics, Rachel Carson Lecture from the American Geophysical Union, and Muybridge Award from the International Society of Biomechanics.