Sheila Patek Biography

Sheila Patek, a UC Berkeley scientist, created a name for herself by employing high-speed video cameras capturing at up to 20000 frames per second to measure the hyperfast motions of snail-smashing mantis shrimp heels and bug-snapping ant jaws. She and her colleagues demonstrated in 2004 that peacock mantis shrimp had the quickest feeding strike in the animal kingdom and are the only known species to store energy in a hyperbolic paraboloid, a super-strong Pringles-shaped structure more commonly encountered in modern architecture. Then, in 2006, she and her colleagues claimed that trap-jaw ants had surpassed the mantis shrimp as the quickest striker when their research clocked the ants' snapping jaws at an incredible 78 to 145 miles per hour, accelerating at 100000 times the force of gravity. Patek's prior study focused on the sounds emitted by spiny lobsters, which revealed that they employed a mechanism similar to that of a violin. She was named one of Popular Science magazine's Brilliant 10 in 2004. Patek's lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is the primary investigator, continues to investigate evolutionary problems by combining physiology, biomechanics, evolutionary analysis, and animal behavior. Check Sheila Patek's and other famous speakers' and celebrities' availability by contacting a speaker booking agent.

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