Beth Mortimer is currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow and leader of the Animal Vibration Lab in the Zoology Department at University of Oxford. Her research is at the interface of biology, materials science and engineering, using physical sciences techniques to answer biological questions about information transfer through materials. Through her current research, she aims to understand how spiders, arguably the surface vibration experts of the animal kingdom, detect and use vibrations through their legs. Through studying spiders, she gains understanding that can be applied to other animals that sense these vibrations, as well as robots.
