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2026

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Citations
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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to understanding of aquatic propulsion in fishes through experimental hydrodynamics
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

George V. Lauder is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms, Sports Performance and Training, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Magnetism in coordination complexes, and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems.

The scientist's recent published works include the following papers:

  • Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut (2022, Nature Methods)
  • An autonomously swimming biohybrid fish designed with human cardiac biophysics (2022, Science)
  • Tunabot Flex: a tuna-inspired robot with body flexibility improves high-performance swimming (2020, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics)
  • Hydrodynamics of median-fin interactions in fish-like locomotion: Effects of fin shape and movement (2020, Physics of Fluids)
  • Convergence of undulatory swimming kinematics across a diversity of fishes (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors of George V. Lauder's work include:

  • Kelsey Lucas
  • Eric Tytell
  • Valentina Di Santo
  • Dylan K. Wainwright
  • Jessy Lauer

The scientist commonly publishes in these venues:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

George V. Lauder's work is concentrated in several subfields of Environmental Science, particularly:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
  • Ecology
  • Spectroscopy

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015, cited for fundamental contributions to the understanding of aquatic propulsion in fishes through experimental hydrodynamics. They were also made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Fish exploiting vortices decrease muscle activity.

    James C. Liao;David N. Beal;David N. Beal;George V. Lauder;George V. Lauder;Michael S. Triantafyllou;Michael S. Triantafyllou

  • The evolution and interrelationships of the actinopterygian fishes

    George V. Lauder;Karel F. Liem

  • Passive and Active Flow Control by Swimming Fishes and Mammals

    F. E. Fish;G. V. Lauder

  • Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray.

    Sung-Jin Park;Mattia Gazzola;Kyung Park;Shirley Park

  • Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

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  • The Kármán gait: novel body kinematics of rainbow trout swimming in a vortex street

    James C. Liao;David N. Beal;George V. Lauder;Michael S. Triantafyllou

  • Locomotor forces on a swimming fish: three-dimensional vortex wake dynamics quantified using digital particle image velocimetry.

    Eliot G. Drucker;George V. Lauder

  • Form and function: structural analysis in evolutionary morphology

    George V. Lauder

  • Biomimetic shark skin: design, fabrication and hydrodynamic function

    Li Wen;James C Weaver;George V Lauder

  • The hydrodynamics of eel swimming: I. Wake structure

    Eric D. Tytell;George V. Lauder

  • Passive propulsion in vortex wakes

    D. N. Beal;F. S. Hover;M. S. Triantafyllou;J. C. Liao

  • Morphology and experimental hydrodynamics of fish fin control surfaces

    G.V. Lauder;E.G. Drucker

  • Function without purpose

    Ron Amundson;George V. Lauder

  • Fish biorobotics: kinematics and hydrodynamics of self-propulsion

    George V. Lauder;Erik J. Anderson;James Tangorra;Peter G. A. Madden

  • The hydrodynamic function of shark skin and two biomimetic applications

    Johannes Oeffner;George V. Lauder

  • Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Propulsion

    George V. Lauder;Eric D. Tytell

  • Tuna robotics: A high-frequency experimental platform exploring the performance space of swimming fishes.

    J. Zhu;C. White;D. K. Wainwright;V. Di Santo

  • Fish Locomotion: Recent Advances and New Directions

    George V. Lauder

  • Evolution of the feeding mechanism in primitive actionopterygian fishes: A functional anatomical analysis of Polypterus, Lepisosteus, and Amia.

    George V. Lauder

  • Locomotor function of the dorsal fin in teleost fishes: experimental analysis of wake forces in sunfish

    Eliot G. Drucker;George V. Lauder

  • Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology

    Colin Allen;Marc Bekoff;George V. Lauder

  • WHAT DOES THE COMPARATIVE METHOD REVEAL ABOUT ADAPTATION

    A. M. Leroi;M. R. Rose;George V. Lauder

  • Function of the Caudal Fin During Locomotion in Fishes: Kinematics, Flow Visualization, and Evolutionary Patterns1

    George V. Lauder

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajat Mittal
Rajat Mittal Johns Hopkins University
Bruce C. Jayne
Bruce C. Jayne University of Cincinnati
Li Wen
Li Wen Beihang University
Alexander Smits
Alexander Smits Princeton University
Peter C. Wainwright
Peter C. Wainwright University of California, Davis
Frank E. Fish
Frank E. Fish West Chester University
James C. Liao
James C. Liao University of Florida
Hilary Bart-Smith
Hilary Bart-Smith University of Virginia
Katia Bertoldi
Katia Bertoldi Harvard University
John O. Dabiri
John O. Dabiri California Institute of Technology

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