Thomas Neil Email & Phone Number

Walton-On-Thames, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

As a Publishing Specialist at Frontiers in Nutrition, I focus on identifying vibrant research communities whose work can benefit from increased visibility. By highlighting their research, I aim to accelerate progress, inspire new discussions, and showcase novel approaches and technologies. I identify leading researchers to serve as topic editors and collaborate with them to create research topics that spotlight the latest developments in the field of nutrition.Project managing the entire life cycle of each research topic, I support topic editors in recruiting contributors, ensuring high-quality submissions, and assisting them throughout the editorial process. Leveraging various data analysis tools, I provide data-driven insights and recommendations to our internal editors, working closely with journal editorial teams to align article collections with overarching journal strategies.I pride myself on building and maintaining relationships with both new and existing guest editors and potential authors, actively inviting them to contribute to our collections or submit research articles. Across the diverse teams at Frontiers, I forge strong partnerships to support the end-to-end delivery of high-quality content. This collaborative endeavor is vital to maintaining a cohesive, dynamic approach throughout the publication process, ensuring our journal consistently delivers impactful and top-tier nutritional science research.

Bristol, United Kingdom

My research focuses on bioacoustics, in particular the interactions of bats and moths. Whilst visual camouflage is a much studied and prevalent phenomenon, for acoustics, camouflage is far less intuitive.Predation pressure by bats has driven the evolution of a host of defences in nocturnal moths. An emerging field in this area is biosonar camouflage, in which naturally occurring mechanisms act to reduce the echo reflectivity of the moths, making them harder to detect by the biosonar of bats. The scales of moth wings are a key component of this potential defence, and offer a rich range of potential ultrasonic diffraction mechanisms to create biosonar camouflage.I am working to characterise the echo reflectivity of moths and understand exactly how the complex lattice of scales on the wings of moths might act to absorb sound energy. It is hoped that a greater understanding of these sub-wavelength mechanisms will have considerable impact in the fields of noise control systems and the development of ultra-thin dynamic sound absorbers.

My research involves the study of jet propulsion swimming in marine molluscs. Part of my research focuses on the hydrodynamics of jet propulsion swimming, using PIV to study the fluid motion around the animals as they swim in order to gain insight into the energetics of their locomotion. From this I can learn more about biological propulsion systems and the way in which they work. It is possible that knowledge gained from animal locomotion can be applied in the designs of vehicles such as submarines, leading to bio-inspired designed and improved vehicle performance. The other side of my research looks at the physiology of the muscular systems that drive jet propulsion swimming in these animals. I have been able to study how the muscles produce the power required for swimming both in vivo and in vitro and looked at how this changes with size. Studying muscle physiology in this way has allowed me to gain a greater knowledge of how muscle power output changes with body size, this can then be applied to muscular systems that are too complex to study themselves.

Bachelor Of Science (Hons), Zoology, 2:1

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