Gijs Krijnen in National Geographic documentary

Gijs Krijnen in National Geographic documentory

Gijs Krijnen is featuring in the National Geographics documentary Cricket Combat.

The biological features that make crickets want to fight may also offer help for researchers trying to make sensitive flow sensors. TST is participating in a international project, Cilia, which looks into arrayed hair sensors. Sensory systems based on arrays of hairs occur widely in nature and function in diverse sensing scenarios, for instance in air (cerci, external sensing hairs in arthropods), in water (lateral line, neuromasts in fish) and in a fluid-filled compartment coupled to air through impedance matching devices and beamforming baffles (mammalian auditory apparatus). These mechanosensor-systems are amongst the most sensitive sensors known. This suggests that hair-based sensing organs, supported by appropriate neuronal representation and processing, are a model system particularly well-suited for studying the extraction of significant information from noisy environments. For more info on the Cilia project, visit our research webpage.