Trustee
Ordinary Member
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Thomas is a behavioural ecologist with research interests in arthropods in general, but in web-building behaviour of orb spiders in particular. He has a MSc from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and a PhD from the University of Bath. He has conducted field work on tropical spiders in Panama and cave spiders in Spain, Portugal and Italy, but most of his research experience comes from studies of orb spiders in the UK. He works as a lecturer in biological sciences for the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and is also a senior research fellow at the Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies.