People

People
  • The FASt Lab is looking for PhD Students
    The Fluids and Adaptive Structures Lab (FASt) at the University of Florida is currently looking to hire PhD students interested in the adaptive structures, embedded smart materials, and fluid-structure interactions. Potential projects are in the area of 1) Bio-inspired Underwater Robotics and 2) Morphological Computation of Aeroelastic Structures.

PI

Dr. Patrick Musgrave 

Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department

Contact Info

  • Office: NEB 561
  • Lab: MAE-A 120
  • Email: pmusgrave@ufl.edu 

Education

  • Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Virginia Tech, 2018
  • BSc (Physics) & BSE (Mechanical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh,  2012

Prior to joining the University of Florida in the Fall of 2021, Dr. Musgrave was a research scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Naval Center for Space Technology. At NRL, he was a Jerome Karle’s Fellow and received early career funding in the area of bio-inspired underwater propulsion. Dr. Musgrave is a DAAD Scholar, having held a post-baccalaureate research position at the Technical University of Munich.

PhD Students

Isabel Hess 

Education:
MS, University of Florida, 2022
BS,  University of Florida, 2019
Joined FASt Lab: Fall 2021 

Shan He

Education: 
MS, University of Florida, 2022
BS,  University of Florida, 2020
Joined FASt Lab: Spring 2022

Brandon Schrader

Education: 
MS, Kennesaw State University, 2023
BS,  Florida State University, 2022
Joined FASt Lab: Fall 2024

Masters Students

Kevin Soto  

Education:
BS,  University of Central Florida, 2023

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Tristan Jackson 
  • Nicolas Jacobellis
  • Henry Kanfer
  • Isabella Lantzy
  • Fabio Savino 
  • Tin Sulenta
  • Trevor Yates 

Lab Alumni

Masters

  1. Miguel Perilla (2023), MS Thesis: “Stiffness Variation of a Bio-inspired Propulsor due to Localized In-plane Forcing”

Bachelors

  1. Alec Feller (2024)
  2. Francisco Antunez (2023)
  3. Jacob Zecher (2023), Honors Thesis: “Higher Resonant Frequency Excitation in a Bio-inspired Propulsor”
  4. Dimitri Medina (2023) 
  5. Matthew Nguyen (2023) 
  6. Jessica Le (2022), Honors Thesis: “Characterizing the Step Response of a Peano-HASEL Actuator Loaded in Bending”