Paper on web asymmetry and web inclination in spider webs

Together with a student, we have a new paper out in the Journal of Arachnology (impressively, it is the second paper arising from Nick Tew’s undergraduate research project – Nick is now a PhD student at Bristol University). The paper looks at the factors...

Biologically inspired design review paper

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...

Research is featured on BBC News online

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...

Interviewed for DR Viden magazine article

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...