Gwilym took his undergraduate Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering with Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. This gave him the chance to study a variety of topics not just in pure Mechanical Engineering, but also to apply those skills to biological applications.
He has an EPSRC grant to perform research leading to a DPhil which started in October 2009. He studies the natural processing environment that allows the silk proteins of silkworms and spiders to be spun into fibres, mainly in vivo, from a biological and engineering perspective.
Prof. Fritz Vollrath and colleagues from the Fudan University in China are widely covered in the news for their discovery of a means to produce fake Rhino horns using horse hair. Hopes are that this product may undermine the illegal market for rhino horn, and demistify the properties of rhino horn. View Here
