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David Labonte is a Reader in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His research focuses on how physical constraints shape biological systems and evolutionary processes. His multidisciplinary group welcomes students and post-doctoral researchers from various backgrounds in natural sciences and engineering. His team's studies delve into fundamental biological phenomena from a mechanical perspective, exploring reversible high-performing adhesives found in climbing insects, tree frogs, and geckos, as well as the unique fracture behavior of biological ceramics. David joined the Department in 2018, having held the Denman Baynes Senior Research Fellowship at Clare College in the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he completed his PhD in Zoology at the University of Cambridge in 2015 after graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, Germany, with a degree in Biomimetics.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.