Dan Zimmerman, N3OX - Amateur Radio
The Great Outdoor Fight - Band
Description: Professional portfolio website for Daniel S. Zimmerman, Ph.D. Physics, robotics, electronics, fluid mechanics, code and data.
I'm a research scientist and multidisciplinary engineer with experience in nonlinear dynamics, electronics, sensors, mechatronics, and the continuum mechanics of solids and fluids. I've spent the past decade or so working in robotics hardware R&D and robotics software development.
I grew up on Lego, Forrest Mims III electronics books, and sci-fi. In high school, I discovered physics and amateur radio . Despite my budding RF electronics and antenna design career, physics won out over electrical engineering for my undergrad studies , and the mathematics of chaos theory steered me toward graduate research in nonlinear dynamics.
During my Ph.D., I designed, built, and instrumented a twenty ton geophysical fluid dynamics experiment , measured what it did , wrote a few hundred pages about it , graduated, and then then dried it out and filled it with thirteen tons of flammable liquid metal . After a few more publications and some cool visualizations , I moved on to startup life in Brooklyn designing, building, and testing hydrokinetic generator prototypes .
Dan Zimmerman, N3OX - Amateur Radio
The Great Outdoor Fight - Band