Marta Wolf, M.Sc.

Graduate Student Supervisor: Anders Hedenström Co-supervisor: Christoffer Johansson

Research Interest

Man must rise above the Earth — to the top of the atmosphere and beyond — for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

— Socrates

My PhD is about flight – a topic that has always fascinated us, humans.

Flight has developed independently four times throughout the history and in my research I focus on flight of vertebrates.

I train the animals to fly at a fixed location in a wind tunnel and by using different techniques, such as high-velocity cameras and DPIV (Digital Particle Image Velocimetry), I can study and analyze their flight. I’ve been working with birds but I am currently working with tropical bats (Glossophaga soricina). I am also interested in intermittent flight of bounding bird species and gliding flight in Jackdaws.

I hope that my research will contribute to further understanding of the basic aerodynamics of flight in different animal groups and will help to develop a more general theory for animal flight.

For more information look at our lab page.