Daniel J. Lynch

Daniel J. Lynch

he/him/his

Postdoc and teaching assistant at Northwestern University. My interests include limbed locomotion for robotic exploration in complex environments, nonlinear dynamics, geometric mechanics and control, granular rheology, fluid mechanics, and gait rehabilitation and prosthetics.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

I have worked as a teaching assistant (TA) for 4 different courses (and a total of 9 different offerings) at Northwestern University, from 2019 to 2026.

  • Robotic Manipulation, ME 449: Fall 2026, Fall 2022. Instructor: Prof. Kevin Lynch
  • Robot Design Studio, ME 495: Winter-Spring 2020, Winter-Spring 2019. Instructors: Prof. Ed Colgate and Billie Strong (2020); Dr. Ron Worth (2019)
  • Introduction to Mechatronics, ME 333: Winter 2021. Instructor: Nick Marchuk
  • Scientific and Embedded Programming in Python, ME 224: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019. Instructors: Prof. Michael Peshkin (Spring 20xx) and Prof. Malcolm MacIver (Fall 20xx)

Volunteer Teacher

Splash at Northwestern (Education Outreach), Northwestern University

In 2022 and 2023, I volunteered as a teacher for Splash at Northwestern, an education outreach program dedicated to providing unique and fun learning opportunities to high school students in the greater Chicago area, especially students coming from underrepresented backgrounds. Each year, I designed and taught a course that applied various topics in mathematics to aspects of real life: ecology (2022) and music (2023).

  • Rabbits and Foxes, Butterflies and Tornadoes, and Chaos (2022)
  • The Mathematics of Modern Musical Harmony (2023)