Karl Iagnemma is a principal research scientist in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He has performed postdoctoral research at MIT, and has been a visiting researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). He currently serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and the Journal of Field Robotics.

Dr. Iagnemma was chosen as one of 16 people who redefined science in 2003 by SEED magazine. He was a 2005 nominee for a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

Books by Karl Iagnemma

The Expeditions

by Karl Iagnemma

The year is 1844. Sixteen-year-old runaway Elisha Stone is in Detroit, a hardscrabble frontier town on the edge of the civilized world. A canny survivor with the instincts of a born naturalist, Elisha signs on to an expedition into Michigan’s vast, uncharted Upper Peninsula.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction

by Karl Iagnemma