Pdfs of most papers are available upon request to me at thomashesselberg@gmail.com

Peer reviewed scientific papers

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Hesselberg, T. (2010). Ontogenetic changes in web design in two orb-web spiders. Ethology 116: 535-545.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01760.x

Hesselberg, T. and Triana, E. (2010). The web of the acacia orb-spider Eustala illicita (Araneae: Araneidae) with notes on its natural history. Journal of Arachnology, 38:21-26.
DOI: 10.1636/HI09-59.1

Hesselberg, T. and Lehmann, F.-O. (2009). The role of experience in flight behaviour of Drosophila. Journal of Experimental Biology. 212: 3377-3386.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.025221

Hesselberg, T. (2009). Sensors and control systems for micro-air vehicles: lessons from flies. Sensor Review, 29: 120-126.
DOI: 10.1108/02602280910936228

Hesselberg, T. and Lehmann, F.-O. (2007). Turning behaviour depends on frictional damping in the fruit fly Drosophila. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210: 3419-3434.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010389

Hesselberg, T. (2007). Biomimetics and the case of the remarkable ragworms. Naturwissenschaften, 94: 613-621.
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0212-0

Hesselberg, T. and Vincent, J.F.V. (2006). The function of parapodial setae in a nereidid polychaete moving on two different substrata. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 335: 235-244
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.03.008

Hesselberg, T. and Vollrath, F. (2006). Temperature affects both web spider response time and prey escape speed. Bulletin of the British arachnological Society, 13: 275-280.

Hesselberg, T. and Vincent, J.F.V. (2006). A comparative study of functional morphology of parapodia and setae in nereids (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Animal Biology, 56: 103-120.
DOI: 10.1163/157075606775904704

La Spina, G., Hesselberg, T., Williams, J. and Vincent, J.F.V. (2005). A biomimetic approach to robot locomotion in unstructured and slippery environments. Journal of Bionics Engineering, 2: 1-14.

Hesselberg, T. and Vollrath, F. (2004). The effects of neurotoxins on web-geometry and web-building behaviour in Araneus diadematus Cl. Physiology & Behavior, 82: 519-529.
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.04.058

Selected conferences, courses and academic visits.

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2009
- Giving a behavioural seminar at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama entitled ‘Behavioural plasticity in orb-spiders’.

2007
- One week visit to the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK. Working on a grant proposal.
- Attending and giving a presentation entitled ‘Visuo-motor learning during orientation flight of the fruit fly Drosophila’ at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in Glasgow, U.K. (SEBatGlasgow 2007).
- Attending and giving a presentation entitled ‘Simulating naturally occurring changes in body kinematics in a virtual flight arena’ at the Priority Program SPP1207 workshop on Measurements and Simulations of Animal Locomotion in Darmstadt, Germany.

2005
- Attending and giving a presentation entitled ‘Biomimetic traction for endoscopy’ at the Commercial Biomimetics conference at the University of Bath.
- Attending and presenting a poster entitled ‘The functional morphology of locomotion in the ragworm Nereis diversicolor’ at the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB-Barcelona 2005) in Barcelona, Spain.
- Giving a public lecture entitled ‘Biomimetics – Learning from Nature’ at the Bath Royal Scientific & Literary Institution.
- Attending and presenting a poster and a short demonstration at the BIRO-NET (Biological inspired robotics network) EASTER Symposium 2005, University of Bath.
- Visiting the department of Marine Biology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands for the month of March.

2004
- Attending the international two-week postgraduate course ‘Sensory Ecology’ at University of Lund in Sweden.
- Attending and giving a short presentation at the International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Robots, University of Bath.
- Attending and giving a presentation at the FET-IST 24 month review meeting for BIOLOCH in Bonn, Germany.

2003
- Attending the FET-IST 12 month review meeting for BIOLOCH in Alicante, Spain.
- Participating in a one-day workshop on SolidEdge training.
- Attending the 12-month meeting of the BIOLOCH-project at FORTH in Heraklion, Greece.

2002
-Attending the 6-month meeting of the BIOLOCH-project at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

2001
- Visiting the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland for 6 days in connection with my master research project.