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Sheila N. Patek
Sheila Patek is an American biomechanist and principle investigator of The Patek Lab. Currently, she is an associate professor at Duke University in the Department of Biology.

Early life and education
https://today.duke.edu/2013/10/patek

From 1990-1994, Patek attended Harvard University where she earned her A.B. “artium baccalaureus" or Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree with honors in Biology. For her graduate degree, Patek studied at Duke University with her advisor Stephen Nowicki from 1995-2001. Unicycling circus trick https://today.duke.edu/2011/08/circustricks http://sites.biology.duke.edu/nowicki/tricks.html  After receiving her Ph.D. degree, Patek conducted her postdoctoral research at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
2004-2009, Assistant professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley

2009-2013 promoted to associate professor in 2012, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2013 Associate Professor, Biology Department, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Monitoring editor The Journal of Experimental Biology editorial team

Primary investigator on the Multidiciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) through the United States Department of Defense (DOD)

Selected awards and recognition

 * 2015-2016 – Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
 * 2012-2018 – National Science Foundation CAREER award by the NSF office of Integrative Organismal Biology
 * 2008-2009 – Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
 * 2008 – George A. Bartholomew Award for distinguished contributions to comparative physiology in 2008 by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
 * 2004 – Brilliant 10 Award in 2004 by Popular Science magazine
 * 1996-2000 – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
 * 1995 – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention

Science outreach for the public
2004 Mainstage TED talk in Monterey, CA.

"wastebook" congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona  Congressional poster session and reception to U.S. Congress, Washington D.C.

Continue to argue for basic research PBS NewsHour

Selected publications

 * Biewener, A., & Patek, S. (2018). Animal locomotion. Oxford University Press.
 * Ilton, M., Bhamla, M. S., Ma, X., Cox, S. M., Fitchett, L. L., Kim, Y., Koh, J., Krishnamurthy, D., Kuo, C., Temel, F. Z., et al. (2018). The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems. Science, 360(6387), eaao1082. doi: 10.1126/science.aao1082
 * Patek, S. N., & Summers, A. P. (2017). Invertebrate biomechanics. Current Biology, 27(10), R371-R375. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.012
 * Patek, S. N., Korff, W. L., & Caldwell, R. L. (2004). Biomechanics: deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp. Nature, 428(6985), 819. doi:
 * Patek, S. N. (2001). Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound. Nature, 411(6834), 153. doi:

Personal life
Patek met Charles L. Nunn in graduate school at Duke University, they later married. Nunn is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the Duke Global Health Institute. Together, Patek and Nunn have two children.