by Thomas | 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...
by Thomas | 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...
by Thomas | 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...
by Thomas | Apr 8, 2018
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...
by Thomas | Oct 8, 2017
This month, I have taken up a 3-hr Stipendiary Lectureship in Biological Sciences at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. My main role is to give tutorials to 2nd and 3rd year St. Anne’s students in quantitative methods, evolution and animal...
by Thomas | Jul 18, 2017
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...
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