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Chiara Daraio
Chiara Daraio
G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
Expertise
Metamaterials; soft robotics; wearable devices; acoustic imaging; thermal sensing; smart fabrics; sustainability
Profile
Daraio is developing new materials with advanced mechanical and sensing properties, for application in wearable medical devices, robotics and vibrations control. She developed new materials and methods for acoustic imaging and thermal sensing in medicine and health monitoring. She also built soft robots capable of motion without motors, using controlled material deformation instead. Lately, she has been focusing on solutions for haptic technologies in human-computer interactions.
Languages Spoken
English;
Italian;
Faculty Bio
B.S.; M.S., University of Ancona (Italy), 2001; M.S., University of California (San Diego), 2003; Ph.D., 2006. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2006-10; Professor, 2011-21; Jones Professor, 2021-; HMRI Investigator, 2021-.
Caltech Affiliations
Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP)
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Aided by AI, New Catheter Design Prevents Bacterial Infections
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An interdisciplinary project at Caltech has designed catheters that reduce the risk of bacterial infection by 100-fold.
Watson Lecture on May 10: Chiara Daraio on Developing Wearables That Can Help Us Monitor Our Health, Communicate, and More
May 02, 2023
On Wednesday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. PDT in Beckman Auditorium on the Caltech campus, Chiara Daraio, the G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, will continue the 100th anniversary season of the Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series with "Making Wearable Materials Smarter."
Mimicking Termites to Generate New Materials
August 26, 2022
Chiara Daraio looks to insects for inspiration in developing new materials.
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