Conference on Subterranean Biology

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

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

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...