Her work has been profiled by major news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, BBC Radio 5, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic Wild.

[4][5][6] Flammang was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (2010–2013) and a faculty member in the Division of Continuing Education (2009–2014) at Harvard University.

Her current research focuses on the remora adhesive disc, from describing its function and morphology to understanding the hydrodynamics and mechanism of its attachment.

[20] Her lab focuses on functional morphology and comparative biomechanics, along with bioinspired robotics, the evolution of tetrapods, and the fluid dynamics of swimming.

[2] Flammang is the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rules of Life RAISE grant[25] to address the evolution of terrestrial locomotion.