講座人簡(jiǎn)介：Professor Fritz Vollrath received his PhD from the ZoologyDepartment at the University of Freiburg in Germany. After time at theSmithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Panama and the Zoology Departmentsat the Universities of Oxford UK, Basel CH and Aarhus DK, he is now back at theZoology Department in Oxford holding an Advanced Grant of the European ResearchCouncil. Presently Fritz' research focusses on spiders’ web engineering andstructure-function relationships of a wide range of silks and natural silkcomposites. In addition Fritz is becoming increasingly interested in silk asfully sustainable key components in many industries that have significantsocio-economic potential especially in developing countries and in this work hecollaborates closely with Oxford Biomaterials. Fritz' other interests concernelephant conservation and in that capacity he chairs Save the Elephants, headsthe Oxford Tracking Group and is actively involved with the Mpala ResearchCentre in Kenya.