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Amin Mivehchi is a researcher whose work lies at the intersection of fluid dynamics and biological propulsion, with a focus on how organisms and engineered systems move through water. His primary research areas include bio-inspired hydrodynamics, flow-mediated interactions, and the self-organization of swimming bodies. Mivehchi’s major contributions center on understanding how boundaries and neighbor interactions shape swimming behavior. His most cited paper, “Swimming freely near the ground leads to flow-mediated equilibrium altitudes” (2019, 42 citations), reveals that a pitching foil near a solid boundary can achieve a stable equilibrium altitude without active control, a finding with implications for underwater vehicle design. In subsequent work, he demonstrated that simple schooling swimmers can achieve two-dimensionally stable self-organization purely through hydrodynamic interactions, as shown in his 2024 paper (15 citations) and its 2021 precursor (6 citations). These studies, combining experiments and simulations at Reynolds numbers on the order of 10⁴, show that out-of-phase synchronization and formation choice (in-line, staggered, or side-by-side) are key to stability. Mivehchi’s research elegantly bridges fundamental physics and practical applications in robotics and biology.