Brooke Flammang
(Brooke E. Flammang)
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
428K Central King Building (CKB)
Education
Ph.D. ; Harvard University ; Biology ; 2010

M.S. ; California State University-Monterey Bay ; Marine Science ; 2005

B.S. ; Fairleigh Dickinson University-College at Florham ; Marine Biology ; 1998

Awards & Honors

2019 Rising Star Research Award, NJIT

2019 Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

2018 Early Career Researcher , Journal of Experimental Biology

2017 The Carl Gans award, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

2013 Dorothy M. Skinner Award, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

2025 Fall Courses
BIOL 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

BIOL 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

BIOL 492 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY

BIOL 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

BIOL 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH

BIOL 790C - DOCTORAL DISSERTN & RESRCH

BIOL 790D - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH

BIOL 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

BIOL 790B - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH

BIOL 790E - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

BIOL 792C - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

BIOL 491 - SENIOR PROJECT

Past Courses
BIOL 200: CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY

BIOL 285: COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE ANATOMY

BIOL 320: DISCOVERING BIOL RESEARCH

BIOL 321: COMP VERTEBRATE ANATOMY

BIOL 375: CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

BIOL 383: NEURAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR

BIOL 462: COMPARATIVE BIOMECHANICS

BIOL 498: SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOLOGY

BIOL 610: COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE ANATOMY

BIOL 698: SELECTED TOPICS IN BIOLOGY

BIOL 698: ST:

BIOL 698: ST: BIO - INSPIRED ROBOTICS

BIOL 698: ST: BIOINSPIRED ROBOTS

BIOL 698: ST: COMPARATIVE BIOMECHANICS

BIOL 698: ST: SPECIAL PROJECTS

BIOL 698: ST:BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS

BIOL 698: ST:COMPARATIVE BIOMECHANICS

Journal Article
Amani Webber-Schultz, Brooke E. Flammang, Kayla Hall, Lauren Simonitis. 2025. "Who nose what flows: Shark narial denticle morphology and potential hydrodynamic implications." Integrative & Comparative Biology .

Arne Bruns, Brooke E. Flammang, Gabor Papotti, Connor Mastropoll, Tom Hansen, Iain Anderson. 2025. "A bioinspired fish fin webbing for proprioceptive feedback." Bioinspiration & Biomimetics , vol. 20 , no. 1 , pp. 016028.

C Zhang, Y Wang, R Augustin-Lawson , J Urena, Catherine Eno, Brooke E. Flammang, Lin Dong. 2024. "A High-performance Triboelectric-electromagnetic Hybrid Generator for Wind and Water Energy Harvesting." Advanced Sustainable Systems .

Brooke E. Flammang. "Virtual field station reveals novel ecological interactions: A case study of a long-term sharksucker association." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom .

Brooke E. Flammang. 2022. "Bioinspired Design in Research: Evolution as Beta-Testing." Integrative And Comparative Biology , vol. 62 , no. 5 , pp. 1164-1173.

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Chapter
Brooke E. Flammang. "Hitching a ride (Remoras)." "Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology," pp. 512-518. Elsevier, 2024.

Brooke E. Flammang. "Fish Robotics ." In GV Lauder, TE Higham, eds., "Fish Physiology vol 41: Integrative Fish Biomechanics," Elselvier,

Brooke E. Flammang. "Fluids and Fishes ." "Stories of Women in Fluids,"

Conference Paper
"Hydrodynamic Evaluation of a Flying Fish Robotic Model Organism: A Study on the Effects of the Caudal Fin Shape."
2023 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), September, 2023.

Professional
Division of Comparative Biomechanics, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Officer, Other Officer , 2020

International Society for Vertebrate Morphology
Officer, Secretary , 2019

International Society for Vertebrate Morphology
Officer, Secretary , 2019