Short-term visiting professor at UIB

by | Oct 17, 2018

I have been so lucky as to be awarded a stipendiary short-term visiting professorship by the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain. This allow me to visit my collaborator Prof Carlos Juan for 8 weeks from mid October to the beginning of December. I am...

Conference on Subterranean Biology

by | Aug 27, 2018

Last week I participated in the 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, which took place in Aveiro Portugal. The conference was very well organised and full of interesting talks about a range of cave and subterranean organisms. In the past few years, I...

Interview in a Danish weekly newspaper

by | Aug 17, 2018

Today, I was interviewed, together with two other Danish biomimetics researchers, about the potential of biomimetics (and the problems, especially in terms of a rather disappointing lack of biomimetics products) as well as on the current status of developing...

Paper on web asymmetry and web inclination in spider webs

by | Jul 21, 2018

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...