My research is focused on the aerodynamics and flight performance of flying animals. I did my PhD at Lund University between 2005 and 2010 studying the flight behaviour of the common swift. The studies involved several different techniques: Wind tunnel experiments using flow visualization techniques to study the aerodynamics, tracking radar measurements to study the flight speeds, flight directions and wind responses during migration and roosting flights and high-speed filming in the field to measure flight performance of the birds in display flights.
Following my doctoral work I moved to Oxford, U.K. to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford Animal Flight Group at the Zoology department. During my three years in Oxford I studied various aspects of insect flight. The main focus of the studies was on efficiency of flight and how it relates to wing morphology and we studied locusts, hawkmoths, dragonflies and damselflies, among other things.
Currently I am working in the Animal Flight Lab with Anders Hedenström where I am performing further investigations of the aerodynamics of insect flight.
