Location
Olsson Hall, Room 243
Lab
122 Engineer's Way
122 Engineer's Way
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Fluid Systems Lab Link Lab

About

Associate Professor Quinn first came to the University of Virginia as an undergraduate student in 2006. After graduating with a BS in Aerospace Engineering, he attended Princeton University and completed a PhD in the Hydrodynamics Lab working on bio-inspired propulsion with Professor Lex Smits. While at Princeton, Quinn was also a Visiting Fellow at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. For his doctoral work, Professor Quinn was awarded the American Physical Society’s Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics. He went on to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bio-Inspired Research and Design group at Stanford University, studying the stability characteristics of birds flying in turbulent gusts. Professor Quinn joined the UVA faculty in 2017. He is a member of the Link Lab, a group of researchers studying Cyber-Physical Systems---particularly autonomous vehicles, body sensor networks, and smart homes.

Education

B.S. ​Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia

Ph.D. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering: Fluid Dynamics, Princeton University

Research Interests

Fluid-Structure Interactions
Biomechanics
Bio-Inspired Robotics
Energy-Harvesting
Cyber-Physical Systems

Courses Taught

Introduction to Fluid Dynamics (MEC 3210)
Fluid Mechanics I (MEC 6310)

Awards

Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Faculty Award 2021
NSF Career Award 2020
American Physical Society’s Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics 2016