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...

Research fellowship at Wolfson College

by | Jan 4, 2010

I have been elected as a non-stipendiary research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, from the 1st of January 2010 until the end of my Marie Curie fellowship. Wolfson College is one of the newer Oxford colleges and exclusively a postgraduate...

JEB paper: Role of experience

by | Oct 3, 2009

New paper: Hesselberg, T. and Lehmann, F.-O. (2009) The role of experience in flight behaviour of Drosophila.Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 3377-3386. The paper is from postdoc in the BioFuture Research Group of Fritz-Olaf Lehmann at the University of Ulm in...

Postdoc in Oxford

by | Oct 1, 2009

Today, I have started my new two year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in the Silk Group at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.