Her research combines biomechanics with ecology and evolution to understand how animals move through complex environments. Her interest in biomimetics and biological design began nearly 10 years ago while an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley working in Bob Full’s laboratory. Since then, she served as a biomechanics consultant in an industrial design course at the Rhode Island School of Design, in association with Khipra Nichols, where she was first exposed to the processes of actual product design and prototyping.