Jaqueline Sturm

About

Jaqueline Sturm is a professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, with a focus on Mediterranean art and architecture during the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods. Her research emphasizes the development and emergence of Christian art and architecture and its relationship to Late Roman art throughout the empire. Her dissertation, titled “The Bishop, His House, and His Church—Early Medieval Episcopal Complexes in Northern Italy (A.D. 300–600),” explores the architectural and artistic manifestations of authority and leadership of the bishop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Mediterranean society. This work examines a specific ensemble of buildings, including cathedrals, baptisteries, and episcopiums, that emerged during the rise of Christianity and depended on the development of the bishop's office. Jaqueline Sturm holds an M.A. in history and Christian archaeology from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where she authored a master’s thesis on the Early Christian tetraconch church of Seleucia Pieria. She conducted dissertation research as the Princeton Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institute for Art History in Rome, and has participated in interdisciplinary workshops and conferences across Europe and the United Kingdom. Currently, she is a graduate fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, contributing to scholarship on Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture.

Research topics

• Engineering
• Geology
• Composite material
• Acoustics
• Electrical engineering
• Structural engineering
• Materials science

Selected publications

• Large-Area Resistive Strain Sensing Sheet for Structural Health Monitoring

  Sensors · 2020 · 45 citations

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  Damage significantly influences response of a strain sensor only if it occurs in the proximity of the sensor. Thus, two-dimensional (2D) sensing sheets covering large areas offer reliable early-stage damage detection for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. This paper presents a scalable sensing sheet design consisting of a dense array of thin-film resistive strain sensors. The sensing sheet is fabricated using flexible printed circuit board (Flex-PCB) manufacturing process which ena…

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• Bacterial Route Finding and Collective Escape in Mazes and Fractals

  Physical Review X · 2020-07-22 · 35 citations

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  Bacteria which grow not on the featureless agar plates of the microbiology lab but in the real world must navigate topologies which are nontrivially complex, such as mazes or fractals. We show that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no-memory (Markovian) walk would predict, and can collectively escape from a fractal topology. The strategies used by the bacteria include individual power-law probability distribution function explorat…

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• Piezoelectric Soft Robot Inchworm Motion by Tuning Ground Friction Through Robot Shape: Quasi-Static Modeling and Experimental Validation

  IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2024-01-01 · 26 citations

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  Electrically-driven soft robots based on piezoelectric actuators may enable compact form factors and maneuverability in complex environments. In most prior work, piezoelectric actuators are used to control a single degree of freedom. In this work, the coordinated activation of five independent piezoelectric actuators, attached to a common metal foil, is used to implement inchworm-inspired crawling motion in a robot that is less than 0.5 mm thick. The motion is based on the control of its frictio…

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• A phased array based on large-area electronics that operates at gigahertz frequency

  Nature Electronics · 2021-10-07 · 24 citations

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• Model-Based Control of Planar Piezoelectric Inchworm Soft Robot for Crawling in Constrained Environments

  2022-04-04 · 17 citations

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  Soft robots have drawn significant attention recently for their ability to achieve rich shapes when interacting with complex environments. However, their elasticity and flexibility compared to rigid robots also pose significant challenges for precise and robust shape control in real-time. Motivated by their potential to operate in highly-constrained environments, as in search-and-rescue operations, this work addresses these challenges of soft-robots by developing a model-based full-shape control…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R42CA174121

  NIH · $1.4M · 2018

• Microfluidic CAR-T Cell Processing Device

  NIH · $1.2M · 2018–2022

• NIH Grant R41HL110574

  NIH · $241k · 2014

Frequent coauthors

• Beth S. Slomine

  Kennedy Krieger Institute

  180 shared

• S. Wagner

  Princeton University

  179 shared

• James R. Christensen

  Johns Hopkins University

  144 shared

• Richard Holubkov

  University of Utah

  144 shared

• Frank W. Moler

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  144 shared

• J. Michael Dean

  University of Utah

  108 shared

• Faye S. Silverstein

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  108 shared

• Robert H. Austin

  Princeton University

  88 shared

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