Popular science article in Danish engineering weekly

This Friday the 2nd of December, the Danish weekly engineering magazine ‘Ingeniøren’ published an article written by me about the use of advanced engineering technology (i.e. uni-axial tensile tests and finite element methods) in the study of orb webs and...

Student paper out in Naturwissenschaften

An undergraduate student that I supervised for his Final Honours School Research project managed to get his project on the effects of wind on predatory behaviour in orb web spiders published as a short article in Naturwissenschaften. Abstract: Wind has previously been...

Research associate status at Oxford

I have been granted research associate status at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford for two years commencing on the 1st of October 2011. This status allows me continued access to the University’s email and online resources as well as access to...

Evening class in animal behaviour for interested adults in Oxford

Through the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, I am offering a 10 week course on animal behaviour in Oxford running from January to March 2012. The course is meant as an introduction to animal behaviour for all interested members of the...

End of Marie Curie Fellowship

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

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...