Thomas Daniel (biologist)

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Thomas L. Daniel
Born1954 (age 6768)
Nationality American
Alma mater Duke University
Scientific career
Fields Biology
Institutions University of Washington
Thesis The role of added-mass in impulsive locomotion with special reference to medusae  (1982)
Doctoral advisor Steven Vogel

Thomas Louis Daniel (born 1954) is an American biologist, Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology at University of Washington, [1] and leads the Daniel Lab. [2] He was the interim director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. [3] Since 2006, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Allen Institute for Brain Science. [4]

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Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS and MS, and from Duke University with a PhD, where he studied with Steven Vogel and Stephen Wainwright. He was the Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering Sciences at California Institute of Technology where he studied with Ted Wu until 1984.

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References

  1. "Univ of Washington Biology Dept". Archived from the original on 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
  2. "The Daniel Lab". faculty.washington.edu. Archived from the original on 2002-11-02.
  3. "Thomas Daniel". ERC/SNE. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  4. "Thomas L. Daniel, Ph.D." Allen Institute for Brain Science. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2012.