George V. Lauder

Who is George V. Lauder?

George V. Lauder is a noted Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He started his biology degree at Harvard in the early 1970s graduating in 1976. This was followed with a Masters and PhD in 1979.Between 1979 and 1981 he worked as a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows Harvard University and from there he joined the University of Chicago as a memmber of faculty. Since 1999 he has been the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology as well as Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research has focussed on biomechanics, particularly the evolution of fishes undertaking laboratory work on kinematics, muscle function, and hydrodynamics of freely-swimming fishes. Extending this work and applying this work he has gone on to analyzing fish locomotive function and the design of fish-like robotic biorobotic platforms.