CV
Academic Positions
- 2020-Present: Assistant Professor, Biology
- University of Portland
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- 2017-2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- University of California, San Diego
- Advisor: Nicholas Gravish
Education
- Ph.D in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Harvard University, 2017. Lab of Andrew Biewener.
- B.A. magna cum laude in Physics, Dance; Barnard College, 2010
Publications
- Clifton, G., Stark, A., Li, C., & Gravish, N. (2023). The bumpy road ahead: the role of substrate roughness on animal walking and a proposed comparative metric. Journal of Experimental Biology.
- Moore, T. & Clifton, G. (2023). Jumping over fences: why field-and laboratory-based biomechanical studies can and should learn from each other. Journal of Experimental Biology.
- Chen, Y., Clifton, G., Graf, N., Durand, K., Taylor, J., Gong, Y., Grezmak, J., & Daltorio, K. (2022). Optimal planar leg geometry in robots and crabs for idealized rocky terrain. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
- Zhao, D., Bittner, B., Clifton, G., Gravish, N., & Revzen, S. (2022). Walking is like slithering: A unifying, data-driven view of locomotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Chang, H., Chang, J., Clifton, G., & Gravish, N. (2021). Anisotropic compliance of robot legs improves recovery from swing-phase collisions. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
- Clifton, G., Holway, D., & Gravish, N. (2020). Uneven substrates constrain walking speed in ants through modulation of stride frequency more than stride length. Royal Society open science.
- Clifton, G., Holway, D., & Gravish, N. (2020). Vision does not impact walking performance in Argentine ants. Journal of Experimental Biology.
- Clifton, G., Holway, D., & Gravish, N. (2019). Rough substrates constrain walking speed in ants through modulation of stride frequency and not stride length. bioRxiv.
- Clifton, G. & Biewener, A. (2018). Foot-propelled swimming kinematics and turning strategies in common loons. Journal of Experimental Biology.
- Clifton, G., Carr, J., & Biewener, A. (2018). Comparative hindlimb myology of footâpropelled swimming birds. Journal of anatomy.
- Clifton, G. (2017). Anatomical Patterns, Kinematics, and Propulsive Strategies of Foot-Based Swimming Birds. .
- Clifton, G., Hedrick, T., & Biewener, A. (2015). Western and Clark's grebes use novel strategies for running on water. The Journal of Experimental Biology.
- Clifton, G. (2009). The Coefficient of Friction of the Pointe Shoe and Implications for Current Manufacturing Processes. Senior Seminar in Dance, Fall.
Service and leadership
- Program Officer elect, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Comparative Biomechanics