End of Marie Curie Fellowship

by | Oct 1, 2011

My two-year Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship for Career Development has now come to an end and I am therefore no longer a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. However, I will for the foreseeable future continue to...

Paper in new Panamanian journal

by | Aug 14, 2011

Puente Biológico is a newly relaunched general biological journal from Panama. The journal, the first peer-reviewed scientific journal in Panama, is published by the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriqui and supported by the Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e...

Research mentioned in Smithsonian science.org

by | Jun 3, 2010

The research behind my recent publication in ethology has been featured on Smithsonianscience.org, a website that disseminate some of the interesting research occuring within the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution. Read the article here

New paper – Ontogenetic changes in orb spiders

by | May 5, 2010

I have a paper in the May issue of Ethology entitled ‘Ontogenetic changes in web design in two orb-web spiders’. Note that there is a mistake in the affiliation (due to a misunderstanding the address was changed by the journal during production). Although...

The art and science of elasticity

by | Apr 28, 2010

The Pars Foundation has published its second volume in its Atlas of Creative Thinking, which attempts to show the creative processes occurring in the minds of artist and scientists. The new volume centers on the topic of elasticity and includes stunning photographs,...

Paper in Journal of Arachnology

by | Apr 1, 2010

In the April issue of Journalf o Arachnology, I have, together with the Costa Rican student Emilia Triana, a paper entitled ‘The web of the acacia orb-spider Eustala illicita (Araneae: Araneidae) with notes on its natural history’. The work in the paper...