Together with colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark, I have been involved in writing a review paper on the methods of biologically inspired design (BID) paradigms including problem-driven BID and solution-driven BID. The paper provides a wealth of...
This month, I have taken up a 3-hr Stipendiary Lectureship in Biological Sciences at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. My main role is to give tutorials to 2nd and 3rd year St. Anne’s students in quantitative methods, evolution and animal...
Research on ant mating flights, which I was involved with, is today featured on the BBC News website. Last year, I was involved with a project developed by the University of Gloucestershire and the Royal Society of Biology that used citizen science data to investigate...
I have been interviewed for an article in the Danish Radio’s science magazine on the biomimetic potential of spider silk (here as major ampullate silk, dragline silk. The article focus on its unique material properties (extraordinary high toughness caused by a...
We have a new paper out in Journal of Insect Behaviour based on the undergraduate research project of Nicholas Tew, who is first author on the paper. In the study, we compared web characteristics of orb webs built by the tetragnathid spider Metelllina mengei in a...
I have been lucky to be involved in an interesting and promising project with colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark that aims to develop more efficient and painless micro-needles for medicine injections and blood samples based on inspiration from the...
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