{"id":142,"date":"2020-07-01T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:37:22","slug":"michal-r-golos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?page_id=142","title":{"rendered":"Dr Michal R. Golos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1731 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michal-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michal-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michal-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michal-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michal-660x880.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michal.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?page_id=91\">Surface wetting and directional water transport on the superhydrophilic <i>Nepenthes<\/i> pitcher trap rim<\/a><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fascinated by carnivorous plants from a young age, I&#8217;ve maintained a live collection of pitcher plants since the late 1990s. Since I first observed pitcher plants in their natural habitat in Borneo in 2005, I have gained field experience with a number of carnivorous plant genera, including <em>Nepenthes<\/em>\u00a0in Borneo and Sumatra, <em>Drosophyllum<\/em> in Morocco and Spain, <em>Drosera<\/em> in Brazil, as well as <em>Heliamphora<\/em>, <em>Brocchinia<\/em>, <em>Catopsis<\/em>, <em>Drosera<\/em>, <em>Genlisea<\/em> and <em>Utricularia\u00a0<\/em>throughout Venezuela. My research interests broadly span the functional morphology, ecology and evolution of tropical pitcher plants (<em>Nepenthes<\/em> and <em>Heliamphora<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Taxonomy and Biodiversity, both from Imperial College London. I was subsequently employed as a research technician at University College London. In October 2018, I joined the Bristol Mechanical Ecology Lab to start a PhD on the biomechanics of <em>Nepenthes<\/em> traps. The main trapping surfaces of these tropical pitcher plants exhibit highly ordered, hierarchical microstructures that confer a suite of interesting properties, including (super)hydrophilicity, water film stabilisation, and directional water spreading. I am investigating the relative contributions of topography and surface chemistry to these surface properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postdoctoral Research Associate Surface wetting and directional water transport on the superhydrophilic Nepenthes pitcher trap rim Fascinated by carnivorous plants&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?page_id=142\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr Michal R. Golos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/1755"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}