David Gruber is an American marine biologist,[1] a Presidential Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at Baruch College, City University of New York,[2] and a National Geographic Explorer.

"[12] Gruber and collaborators again had video featured on the National Geographic website[13] in 2016 after engineering a "shark-eye" camera,[14] which for the first time allowed scientists to view sharks as they see each other.

"[17] In 2019, Gruber was part of the team responsible for discovering that bromo-tryptophan-kynurenines make sharks fluorescent,[18] and this work was featured in The New York Times,[19] National Geographic,[20] Science Magazine,[21] on PBS[22] and on CNN.

Since 2015, Gruber has worked in collaboration with the Harvard MicroRobotics Laboratory in the development of several gentle robotic devices that allow marine researchers to capture and analyze jellyfish and other delicate sea creatures without causing harm.

[34][35][36][37] The work of the "Squishy Finger/Soft Robotics for Delicate Deep-sea Marine Biological Interactions Team" was highlighted in the American Museum of Natural History exhibit, Unseen Oceans.