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Details for Professor Nicholas Roberts
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Nicholas Roberts |
| Job title | Professor of Sensory Ecology |
| Department | School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/biology/person/index.html?personKey=RxkE1PnnmHPN33qAk7Mw3Y7XItyl0E |
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| Qualifications | MPhys (Manc.), PhD(Manc.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | animal vision light and colour in nature polarized light photoreceptor biology stomatopods / mantis shrimps |
| Areas of expertise | I am primarily interested the detection of light and colour in nature. My research is focused on investigating optical mechanisms that underlie sensory abilities such as polarization vision and the evolution of the bio-optics of signaling and photoreception. My work adopts a broad intra- and inter-disciplinary approach, using a combination of physics based techniques (microspectrophotometry, laser tweezing, optical modelling and X-ray scattering) and behavioural studies (operant conditioning and novel optomotor techniques). Ultimately, I want to understand how visual information helps guide aspects of animal behaviour. |