Kelimar Diaz is an Assistant Professor in Physics in the Division of Natural Sciences (Division III) at Oglethorpe University. Dr. Diaz’s research focuses on how animals move and generate behaviors to contend with their immediate surroundings. She received her B.S. in physics from the University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras Campus). She received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences (QBioS) from Georgia Tech, studying undulatory locomotion of diverse systems across length and time scales in the Complex Rheology and Biomechanics (CRAB) Lab under the guidance of Dr. Daniel I. Goldman.