ZANNE COX
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Biography

I’ve always been insatiably curious and have spent most of my life learning about how the world hangs together and trying to show other people the amazing things I’ve found.

I earned a BA in philosophy and a BS in physics from the University of New Hampshire before going to earn a BFA sculpture at Mass College of Art and Design.  Fascinated by big questions, next I spent 5 years working towards a Ph.D. in philosophy at Brown studying the philosophy of perception and the relationship between mind and world.  While taking classes in cognitive science, I kept finding myself longing for more scientific answers then philosophy could produce and my hands missed making things.  So, I left the program a year shy of my Ph.D. and started a studio furniture making business.  After a divorce and trying to raise two girls by myself, I decided to go back to school to get a ‘practical’ degree.  While earning my masters in mechanical engineering, I started collaborating with Sheila Patek and became fascinated with the interface of biology and physics.  I completed my MSME in 2012 with David Schmidt and my phD in Organismic and Evolutionary biology in 2016 working under Gary Gillis. I went onto be a post-doctoral researcher in kinesiology at Penn state in the Rubenson Lab and  in the Daley Neuromechanics lab at the University of California, Irvine. Presently, I am a research scientist working with Sheila Patek at Duke University. When I’m not making things or doing science, I love to white water kayak and build things (machines, houses, sculptures).
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  • Scientific Research
    • Physics of Biology
    • Plasticity of elastic systems
    • Neural control of elastic systems
  • Woodworking
  • CV
  • Bio