Picture of Joshua Coffie smiling
PhD Student
ATLAS Institute
joshua.coffie@colorado.edu

Joshua is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a Masters degree from CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute, emphasizing creative engineering solutions in science and technology for Social Impact. He is currently a PhD Student with the Laboratory for Emergent Nano Materials with the ATLAS Institute, where his work focuses on developing and researching smart tattoos and inks. Joshua spends his free time sailing with his kids and exploring the World. His passion for people and the environment is evident in his work and when he's not in the office or at school, you'll most likely to find him on the water, channeling the wind and pursuing the horizon by sail.

 

Member of the Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials  

Publications

Fiona Bell, Joshua Coffie, and Mirela Alistar. 2024. "Bio-Digital Calendar: Attuning to Nonhuman Temporalities for Multispecies Understanding". In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). (New York, NY, February 11, 2024).

Fiona Bell, Michelle Ramsahoye, Joshua Coffie, Julia Tung, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. “µMe: Exploring the Human Microbiome as an Intimate Material for Living Interfaces”. In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), (Pittsburgh, PA, July 10–14, 2023).