Editors
- Series Editor
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- Stanislav N. Gorb
About the Editor
Stanislav Gorb is a group
leader at the Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel, Germany. He
received his PhD degree in zoology and entomology at the Schmalhausen Institute
of Zoology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev. Gorb was a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Vienna, a research assistant at University of
Jena, a group leader at the Max Planck Institutes for Developmental Biology in
Tübingen and for Metals Research in Stuttgart. Gorb’s research focuses on
morphology, structure, biomechanics, physiology, and evolution of
surface-related functional systems in animals and plants, as well as the
development of biologically inspired technological surfaces and systems. He
received the Schlossmann Award in Biology and Materials Science in 1995 and was
the 1998 BioFuture Competition winner for his works on biological attachment
devices as possible sources for biomimetics. Gorb has co-authored ten books and
more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Further details:
http://www.uni-kiel.de/zoologie/gorb/sgorb.html