Jasmine Nirody


Office: Anatomy Bldg #303F

 I am a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. I'm interested in how organisms sense and respond to mechanical cues from natural envrionments, which can be spatially complex and temporally dynamic. My recent work has focused on two broad systems: flagellated swimming in bacteria and walking in panarthropods.

Prior to starting at UChicago, I was an Independent Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Studies at The Rockefeller University, where I was supported partially by the James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship for Complex Systems (a wonderful program, now sadly discontinued. But check out the Santa Fe Institute if you're inspired by similar topics!). I was also a Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford.

I received my PhD in Biophysics from UC Berkeley, where I was lucky to be advised by George Oster and to be a part of the amazing comparative biomechanics community at Berkeley Integrative Biology. My love for locomotion started when I was an undergrad researcher at the Applied Mathematics Laboratory at NYU.


Academic history


    Independent Research Fellow
    • Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University
    • All Souls College, University of Oxford

    PhD, Biophysics (Emphasis in Computational and Genomic Biology)
    • University of California, Berkeley

    BA, Mathematics and Biology
    • New York University


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