Professor Moehlis received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and then was a postdoctoral researcher in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He joined the UCSB Mechanical Engineering faculty in 2003. His research interests include applying dynamical systems techniques to understand the response dynamics of neural populations, the dynamics of natural and artifical swarms, the nature of shear flow turbulence, and the dynamics of individual and coupled MEMS devices.